Serial Key For Xp Acer
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If yes, which XP CD did you use? Was it an XP HOME OEM CD or other?
Is the key you used the one printed on the COA label at the back of the laptop?
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Is that key on the label for an XP HOME variant or other?As it is is an ACER laptop, I would suggest that it is an OEM laptop and therefore would have originally had an XP HOME or PRO OEM SLP install on it.
Assuming it was originally shipped with XP HOME SLP installed and my assumption is correct and you used the serial at the back of the laptop then you should not get an invalid error message, rather you would get an opportunity to carry out activation by phone.
The error to me suggests that you typed the key in wrongly.
If it is an OEM laptop which came originally installed with OEM XP HOME and you are using an OEM XP HOME CD then you can re-install OEM XP HOME and use the Microsoft Standard OEM key to affect/simulate an OEM SLP install which does not require activation. The key to use is:
MVF4D-W774K-MC4VM-QY6XY-R38TB
NOTE: The key is for OEM XP PRO but may also work on OEM XP HOME - If it does not PM me and I may be able to help identify the correct OEM SLP key for your situation.
See here for more detail:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...
If my assumptions are incorrect then you need to answer the questions posed in order to be correctly advised and/or helped.
Serial Keys For Xp Acer
Additionally as pointed out in post #1 you should NEVER post your keys.
The key I have posted is different in that it is a Microsoft provided standard key designed specifically to solve these kind of cases and is available publically and has limited use (i.e. cannot be pirated).
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It was a version of Windows XP Home that had been laying around for months with no home. I just finished a small footprint micro ATX with everything I needed for a media center and grabbed the disk. I popped it in the DVD drawer and told the install to reformat my old hard drive, after all, it was time for a fresh start. (MIstake #1 - that old hard drive had this particular version of XP installed on it).
I got through everything to the part where the screen popped up for the 25 digit product key. I opened the CD holder where I thought I'd put it last. Nothing. I looked on the inside door of the last case this hard drive had been in. Nope. I picked up the phone and called Microsoft, and after a moderate wait, told the technician what my problem was. Could he simply give me a code that would work?
He asked me to read off some numbers on the surface of the disk. After a moment he came back on. 'Sir, is that OEM software or retail?' I'd bought it OEM with a bunch of parts to build a computer over a year ago.
'Sorry sir, there's nothing I can do for you. We do not provide product support for OEM products. You might try the dealer you bought the software from.'
I said wait, doesn't Microsoft SELL this OEM software to those dealers?
'Well yes, but there is no service provided to the dealer or the customer. We'd be happy to sell you a fresh copy of retail software.' But I already paid for the software, I just needed the product code I'd lost.
I called the dealer, but it had been well past the length of time they provided service for the products they sold. But they would sell me a key that would work for the price of another package of OEM software.
In frustration I signed on to Ebay and looked for product keys for MS software. There are a host of small programs that will read the product key off the software you have installed. So, if I'd done that before I reformatted, I'd have the software installed and on to better things. Googling produced the same thing. Lots of programs will read the key off an installed program, but none can read it from a disk.
Why should I be penalized for buying OEM software when building my own computers? Why does Microsoft sell it and turn their backs to consumers with problems? Why even sell it at all?
That night as I lay in bed, tossing and turning, in my mind's eye I saw a mental snap shot of a big cardboard box of empty software and component boxes inside it, packed away in the attic. Immediately I jumped up, ran upstairs, and tore through the boxes. There, near the bottom, was the empty XP box, with the product key taped to the outside of the box.
I could not wait til morning; I installed it that night. I wrote that number down and put it in 3 different places. I have 4 different versions of Windows XP. And 4 product keys, each tucked away in a safe place.
But the incident with Microsoft and the dealer still irritates me. What are your thoughts, fellow MS software owners?