Old lady lost windows xp

[John Heinen]

John Heinen wrote:
> Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
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>  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
>
>   
Thank you all, for your interesting commentaries, with this we should
succeed, even if I have to buy an old computer for her. Again thanks. Of
course we will succeed. " Luctor et emergo" (I wrestle and overcome}
John Heinen