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30 day expiration on windowsxp home
Name: grendel59 Date: December 13, 2006 at 07:10:46 Pacific OS: winxp home CPU/Ram: 2.60 512 ram Product: dell
Comment:
Hey guys, I just installed winXP home edition on one of my older dell laptops (and it's running great). But it keeps telling me that I have 30days to activate or it will expire. any suggestions would be great. Thanks
Name: XpUser Date: December 13, 2006 at 08:06:10 Pacific
Reply:
Too bad XP isn't like Vista's reduced functionality mode. If I didn't activate my copy of Vista I could still get 1 hour of internet. With XP you have nothing starting on the 30th day.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 5
Name: babysdad Date: December 13, 2006 at 19:39:10 Pacific
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i have two legal 100% legitimate windows XP Pro disks one will expire the other wont without activation however for some reason one key wont work for the other. you know what i mean. you should be able to use one disk and 50 different keys will work. with legal liscences of course
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Response Number 6
Name: XpUser Date: December 15, 2006 at 06:39:50 Pacific
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