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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: Anti-Poll!!!
OEM disk. Maybe this is why Chuck runs into systems that use one CD Key
on the HD & another on the outside of the case. ;-) Of course all this
was before Sp1 & Dell may have changed their tune since
After I install Windows XP using the Product Key on the COA affixed to the
case I have to call Microsoft (which has outsources this process to Taiwan)
to authenticate. Microsoft most often asks me for the Product Key. Even if
they do not, they have the "DNA" of the computer that was sent to them at
least twice, once when it was new and once when I attempted to authenticate
and authentication failed. Once Microsoft approves and allows
authentication, the Product Key on the COA is locked to that installation of
Windows. The customer should never have that problem again.
I have asked Microsoft why I have to call them to authenticate Windows on a
reinstallation. They informed me that it is their policy to have the
customer call in after each reinstall. I saw no need to inform them that I
never have to call them when I reinstall Windows XP on a computer that I
built, no matter how many times I have to reinstall it.
With name brand computers one or two things (or the combination of both)
evidently trips the Microsoft denial of online authentication.
1. Partition (rids the hard drive of the little partition installed by the
name brand computer manufacturer), format and a clean install, totally
bypassing the name brand install. By bypassing the Microsoft Windows XP OEM
Preinstallation Kit, you get far less junk and proprietary clutter etc.
2. Windows having been installed by the computer manufacturer using a
different Product Key than the one on the COA they affixed to the computer.
My estimate is that in the almost 5 years XP has been around (I did the same
thing with previous operating systems) I have partitioned, formatted and did
clean installs on over 700 name brand computers. That is a lot of calls to
Microsoft! Over 90% of the calls to Microsoft have been required in the past
3 years. This indicates that they have tightened security etc. I am
confident that each and every computer I partitioned, formatted and did a
clean install on performs far better than it did the day it was new.
Chuck
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