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HI

I was referring to this earlier when I said Genuine Check will not approve of this situation. Unless if you have the product key and are the owner of the computer, you should not install any Microsoft Product. This is to prevent software piracy. Although it is possible to get by with this situation because you own the product, Microsoft will still not allow you to input this operating system on the computer. I suggest that you get a product key by either finding yours or buying one from Microsoft. You will have to contact Microsoft and explain the situation that you lost your key and hopefully they will approve your request and make the sale.

My best recommendation is, is that while Windows XP Professional is on this computer, please prepare the computer for upgrade to Ubuntu Linux or buy a new version of Windows such as Windows Vista Home Basic/Premium.

I serviced two computers who would not start up in the past three months. It took me two hours each computer to service them after I took my Ubuntu Install disk, plugged it in to the drive, began setup. Mind you, this finished within 45 minutes and the computer ran well. Does this happen every time? Not exactly. I had to make sure the RAM was more than/at 384 MB so that way they would run optimized!

I had a similar problem to this before, which was because the RPC wasn't starting and as a result a lot of other services were not starting.
It was actaully a permissions problem, I went into safe mode a simply allowed permissions for everyone for the whole of my hard disk, and it seemed to help.

I have the my product key, but it's not working.

swebb32_99, on Feb 26 2009, 08:10 AM, said:

There are several versions of xp pro, a product key only works for one version and should only be used on one computer at a time

This is a was used on the pc that died. I was going to try to activate online, but can't get connect via wifi. I'm dreading this call to MS. I've called before with someone else's pc and cd, and it was pretty easy, but that was 2-3 yrs ago.

If you have a valid key, there's nothing to "dread."

If you don't have a valid key, then the worst thing that can happen is that they tell you what you already know.

No drama involved at all.

Louis

I am sure that if you call Microsoft and get help with your key, then you can get moving along!

Sorry for the delay. I mentioned my situation to the I.T. person and he indiccated that he could apply a patch. In the end, he said called MS and did the validation without even speaking to a person. So, everything is working fine, just so many updates/patches to download.

One last thing, I noticed at work, we have XP Pro SP2. Is it advisable to upgrade to SP3? I know there were some reboot issues on HPs with XP SP3 or am I mistaken?

Thanks.

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Thanks. That sounds like a heck of a lot more work than I willing to do at this point. She was excited that her computer is functional again, so I'll just let her know. I want this out of here!

Now that I think about it, all of the computers at work are HP/Compaq, so I guess they didn't want to bother with either. Thanks for the link.

I am glad to here that we helped you get this issue resolved! Do you have any more questions? You know I will answer them!

No, but yes. The computer was updated with all of the updates, but if I to Windows Update, it still show the files as being needed. Did I miss something? I update icon isn't showing anymore and it is set to notify.

You may have a bunch. Keep trying to install updates and see if you can get them all installed. Please tell me your progress!

Well, I found out that they wouldn't install until I actually selected "Turn Off". I have already Restarted several times and thought that everything was done. It is officially done now.

On to the next one.

Thanks.