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From: "Andy Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: SOFT: HELP!!!! switched on Sunday AM to fin... RESULT --:>))
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Hugh Gundersen wrote:
MS still tells me my copy of XP has wrong serial?????? been Ok for 3
years so what's up doc?
Didn't MS just start checking the serial? Or did you test it back then?
This may further reflect what I have been posting about. You purchase a name
brand computer. You feel ok, since your COA is affixed to your computer and
it has your Product Key. You format and reinstall. You use that Product Key
from the COA. Sometimes Windows will not accept it, so you can not proceed
with your installation. Sometimes Windows does install using your COA
Product Key but fails to authenticate. Then you end up calling Microsoft.
Since I repair computers I have lots of experience with this. I learned not
to call the computer manufacturer. If you call the computer manufacturer you
will learn this one thing:
They give no service after the warranty expires even if it is a
manufacturer's defect (such as using a Product Key that is not the one on
the COA to install Windows.)
Some disagree with me and take up for computer manufacturers who pull this
stunt, even justifying their actions. My experience proves to me and my
customers it is a huge problem and the computer manufacturer simply does not
care!
Chuck
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