Old lady lost windows xp

[John Heinen]

Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks for your good advise, let me explain this, I need to do this
>> right, right?
>> She has window xp on it, someone reinstalled it, {not me), with a bigger
>> drive 40 gb,  it still has to be validated with the numbers, she doesn't
>> have them. She does have windows 98  cd with the numbers and would be
>> very happy to use it. It was my suggestion to use win 98 and also a
>> puppy linux edition  John
>>     
>
> Dear John,
>
> Win 98 is not older than the CD invention and can be installed from a
> CD providing you have a valid key number that can usually be found on
> the outer side of the CD envelope, no validation required.
>
> If this lady has indeed a Win XP licence, and she is not just a
> dangerous one eyed pirate, having only forgotten the exact place she
> kept it, perhaps googgling "Belarc Advisor xp key" can help. But then
> she would probably have to rely on a real dirty pirate, a true
> criminal mind, lacking any kind of respect for the traditional
> agreements on Copyright rules, etc. that would visit something like
> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/11/05/ways-to-crack-and-disable-wga-validation-tool-and-wga-notifications-plus-download-and-install-bypassing-genuine-windows-validate-requirement/
> to get some rather nasty tools to validate the install and run every
> available update.
>
> But then all she would get is an obsolete piece of junk prone to
> viruses and malware, not considering the enormous amount of time
> required to configure the damn thing to a usable state, restarting and
> again an immense number of times.
>
> To get something better perhaps you could take her to
> http://technet.microsoft.com, for instance, were she could find a real
> Windows 7 Enterprise Edition release valid for a 90 days test (after
> which it will begin to behave erratically) (at least I can but I guess
> you have to be a beta tester) although I doubt this lady has half the
> hardware required.
>
> Much, much better, you could zap her hd and introduce her to old,
> stable, state of the art, grub1 wise and piracy free Ubuntu 9.04 and
> live happily forever or at least till a better release turn them
> apart.
>
> Best Regards
>
> L.
>
>   
 Thank you Lucio, but not all things are created equal as well as
people,  This woman likes windows for the games and a little internet
activity  John