Why Use Illegal Versions Of Xp?
Sep 5, 2005
well let me start, te last version of windows i baught was 98SE since that date i stoped buying software from microsoft as i felt i don't get what i am paying for, and after almost 6 years useing unofficial versions of microsoft i said ok it is time to give it a try again, i baught a new notebook which comes with Russian xp and i say it is ok i can call and ask to get it in English as i understood i paied for that windows too, so i called Microsoft office and told them the story and all i get was (sorry we can not help you) so i told the lady who answered me this means that i should go to any market and get a $3.00 version of windows xp and i am realy sorry to say the answer was yes.so now i think microsoft should not be so unhappy about how many people use unofficial versions of there os, as it is our right to get it in any lang we want chinese. indian, Russian english as long as we pay
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Mar 20, 2006
When booting up, I'm presented with a timed screen with two options : Windows XP home edition build 2600; and Windows XP home edition build 2600? I have a feeling that this has occured from having to re-install XP due to a mysterious file becoming corrupted (HAL.dll in SYSTEM32 folder).
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Dec 11, 2005
I have been a user of XP Home SP2 for a number of years, and I have a legitimate OEM install of that on my machine right now. I want to purchase XP Pro SP2, but there are a lot of versions available. The cheaper side of things have 'OEM XP Pro SP2 Upgrade' in the range of $60-$80.Then there are Upgrade versions which do not mention OEM.And finally, there are Full Versions at the most expensive level.To make it more confusing, there are vendors which have listed "OEM XP Pro SP2 Full Version Upgrade"
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Jul 19, 2008
I'd like to know if it's possible to install both 32- and 64-bit versions of XP on the same disk, separate partitions. Which of them should I install first if I were to choose to do so? And, about how much space should I make for the Windows installments? I'm planning to install and store every other possible thing to a 3rd or 4th partition. How much programs/drivers/ other random stuff will I have to install to the same partition as the XP installment(s)? If I install for example a game while working on the other XP, how can I have it marked/merged into the other XP's registry?
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Nov 7, 2007
Why do some versions of Windows XP Home edition cost ~£60, when others cost ~£170?
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Feb 22, 2006
I have a .mov on my system that will play on a Mac, but not on a PC. I've tried it on various Windows machines, various Quicktime versions, and I have tons of codecs. The error I get when trying to open it in quicktime is "Error - 2048: the file is not a movie file" Trying to open it in Media Player Classic tells me it cannot render it. I also cannot convert it to another format. VirtualDub, among other converters, won't pick it up. I can't tell you the Mac version is plays on, but I am confident it is at least a year or two old.
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Jul 14, 2006
I have a question regarding downloading trial versions of software. Once the trial period is over, does it automatically cancel or do I have to cancel it somehow in order to not pay the purchase price?
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Dec 3, 2008
I am curious to the whole 4 Gig issue with 32 bit versions of Windows XP. I understand that 64-bit versions of XP/Vista support more than 4 Gigs, while 32-bit versions only support like 3.5Gigs (recognizable, while the rest is used by the kernel). My issue is, I currently purchased a new system and am trying to figure out which Windows OS would be the best for me. This new system will have 4 Gig's or RAM along with a 64-bit processor, so I guess the question I'm asking is should I get a 64-bit version of XP Pro or look into Vista.
This new system is a gaming machine. Currently I am on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 32-bit and I love it, but since that will not suffice for the new hardware I'm looking for recommendations. Whatever I can get closest to on those terms would probably get best for me.
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Apr 12, 2006
In setting up my first home network, I decided to update to XP. My new computer had SP Home preinstalled and I bought and installed XP Pro SP2 on my older computer. I lost my way somehow in installing XP Pro on my older computer and in frustration tried to overwrite the first install with a new one. Unfortuantely, that didn't work and resulted in two versions of XP being active.On boot-up I was presented with a choice of "Windows XP Professional" or "Windows XP Professional". Despite the identical nomenclature, the first one in the boot sequence was my original attempt at XP and the second in the sequence was my second XP installation with which I had hoped to overwrite the first I decided to go into the Documents and Settings section (and anywhere else that seemed logical) of XP and delete any references that I could find to the first installation of XP.
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Oct 23, 2005
On one of my computers, the "Remember my ID on this computer" checkbox on Yahoo! Mail is replaced by "Keep me signed in for 24 hours unless I sign out".Next to that, there's a "feedback" link and a question icon.What is this? Why is this different from what appears on my other computers?
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Oct 29, 2007
I uninstalled all versions of .NET Framework earlier than 2.0.Afterward,could not access the My Videos file. No matter what program tried to open it would crash.I reinstalled the earlier versions of .NET Framework,but no change.
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Jul 27, 2010
I'm looking to free up space on my hard drive. Is it OK to uninstall old .NET versions, old java versions, and old windows updates? The old versions occupy tremendous space on my computer and if they can be safely removed I'll love to remove them. Is it safe to remove old versions of .NET framework, java consoles, and windows updates?
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Feb 27, 2006
iv got msn explorer as my home page but its the usa version how do i chage it to the uk site cheers x
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Jul 1, 2005
I am building a computer for someone and they are located outside the USA. Am I able to legaly send that computer w/ Windows XP US version? And yes it is a legit oem Windows XP Home disc that will be going with it. I am asking this because I know at one point it was/is illegal to transfer IE because of the encryption that it carries?
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Dec 31, 2005
I read somewhere in this forum that if you had a CD Key stuck on your computer you could install the Windows XP CD of your choice.What I mean to say is this: I have an HP Compaq computer that came with the Windows XP OEM bundled version and its own product Key stuck to the computer. So after the 90 day support with HP, I got rid of all the crapola that comes with their bundle, (AOL, Disney Channel, Silly things, etc.) and reformatted with a copy of Windows XP OEM, using the Product Key on the computer. NO Problem. I have done this several times before and only had one problem, which was resolved through phoning Microsoft Activation Center.
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Oct 7, 2005
I'm trying to help a friend out.His XP crashed - says it is missing some config files etc.I cannot boot up in safe mode, can not repair via the recovery console and when I try to reinstall, it says there is an installation in progress and it won't go any further. (My friend tried to reinstall somehow, and has a few 1/2 installed versions accross his different hard drives.I want to restore from a ghost image we have, but the problem is, there is 7 months of data files (not backed up!) that I want to get saved first.I can boot up via a win98 boot disk and see the files, but I can't work out a way of getting them accross to another hard drive easily. In the old days, I'd use xcopy with the "/s" switch to take all the sub directories etc, but I can't find xcopy in XP or get any copy functions to work
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Feb 9, 2005
I recently recieved my new seagate 160 gig HDD to replace my old one. According to the instruction manual, any versions of XP prior to sp1 and 2 will detect the drive as 137gig instead of 160. The install disk I have, however, is for XP without sp1. What would be the best approach? The software included with the drive gives you the option to transfer the boot info to the new drive (but i doubt that installs windows), and to format it to 137gig and later "expand the partition".
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Apr 11, 2007
A friends pc came with genuine XP home edition (have disc and serial no.) somehow it now has xp pro on it (probabley added by there son) and its not a legal copy.
Can i re-install the home edition and still keep all there files, programs etc?
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Jan 18, 2005
I'm wondering if it's illegal to run my windows xp on 2 computers in my house that run on the same internet. If it IS illegal, what are the consequences? and how would this be caught?
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Sep 20, 2006
I wanted to know if someone had a illegal version of windows and they had ie 6 and wanted it 7 and couldn't because they needed a legal version of windows is there a way of getting ie 7 if that person had illegal version of windows?
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Jul 10, 2005
Last year I purchased a copy of XP Professional on eBay. Prior to that, I purchased Windows 2000 Professional from Best Buy - it was a legal copy and I still have it.I wanted to upgrade/change to XP so I was hoping to get a less expensive purchase via eBay. Everything was fine with it until this week when I tried to download an upgrade to Windows Media Player 10. My licenses were out of wack and when I called Microsoft for support, they told me it was an OEM version and they didn't support those versions. I had no idea I purchased an OEM version. I want a legal copy of XP and don't want to have to reformat my harddrive. Since XP Professional is already on my computer, if I "re-buy" the op-sys, can I load it over this OEM version? Or do I have to reformat?
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May 17, 2006
I installed an old game, and it ended up changing a lot of my icons back to the 95/98 versions of them, and I don't remember/know a way to get rid of them and replace them all with XP's again.
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Jan 15, 2005
I have been experiencing random crashes, freezes and especially error messages for a while now.I ran and reran updated versions of ad-aware, spybot, Norton, hijack this, a million times,defragged and did a couple of files clean-ups to no avail.
I posted my problems on various boards and nobody that helped did fix it
(Thanks still to these kind people) so I used the last resort and reinstalled XP pro.Well after reinstall, problems are still here but worse, upon reinstalling my first program which is thesygate firewall,I got my first error message telling me the program had to shut down.
Following that I was told
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Jun 23, 2006
I keep getting the message that my copy of Windows XP Pro is an illegal copy. This is not true and how do I correct it. The program came with the computer from ACER installed at factory.
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Jan 22, 2008
When I want to install FlashPaper and other program windows show this error massage : http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8886/errorkv4.jpg. I downloaded Update for Windows XP (KB935448) but I can't install the update. The Service Pack version in my system is newer than the update I want to install. I used Windows XP Pro Service Pack v3, v3264.
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Sep 11, 2006
Illegal version of xp pro on my computer, now i am trying to install a legal and clean version of xp home but when i try to boot fromt he cd nothing happens, what am i suppose to do?
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Aug 4, 2005
I found a computer here that has an "illegal" copy of XP on it.
I bought an OEM copy of XP with RAM to put in this said machine.
Is there anyway I can just enter the information from the outside of the cd into XP somewhere so I wouldn't have to reinstall and keep this CD with the computer at this point then?
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Jan 27, 2009
I have a computer that was given to me to use as a backup. It has two small HDs: C is about 6 Gb and D is about 9 Gb. Win XP Pro is on drive C. It is set up as NTFS. The processor is about 1.5. I do not have the CD and, thus, do not want an illegal copy of XP on this computer. I have legal copies of 95, 98SE and an ME upgrade. I would like to reformat the HD to Fat32 and put on one of these older OS. However, when I try to FDISK it will not allow me to reformat the disk, apparently because it is NTFS. It has only the one partition.
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Dec 27, 2004
I am getting illegal error while opening windows explorer.exe. Please assit how to resolve this.
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Jun 29, 2006
I downloaded genuine advantage and it told me that my copy of windows was illegal. I then validated it on the website but windows validation still bugs me on my computer that it is not valid?Is my copy valid or not?And if it is then how can i get rid of the annoying message If it isnt is there anyone i can contact in microsoft to get it working?
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Jul 7, 2006
Resolved a SpySheriff problem yesterday through Security forum and now having a Mozilla problem, Techguy suggested a post here to try and resolve it.On XP SP2. Upgraded to newest Mozilla 2 days ago. Since then keep getting 'Illegal Operation in Plug-in Shockwave Flash' This pops up repeatedly and after few times being closed it shuts down Mozilla.
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