Microsoft can bite me!
By itsjustmeb
@itsjustmeb (1212)
Canada
March 11, 2007 11:16pm CST
I have a legal copy of XP. I have the CD key stuck to the side of my tower. YET Windows does not recognize it as a VALID CD KEY!!! And now if I want to update my OS, I need to pay 148 dollars for a new CD KEY. What for, I have a valid one sitting right here that Ms won't recognize.
This annoys me to no end. Why should I have to shell out more money for another CD Key. Any single way to nickel and dime you to death I suppose.
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5 responses
@slavezero (833)
• Philippines
12 Mar 07
you don't have to. there's a much better and FREE way in recovering your CD key so you don't have to pay for another cd key. i suggest you to use and download Produkey v1.06, it is a small utility that displays the productID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL installed on your computer.
hope this helps ^_^
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@Fixpcbugs (274)
• India
12 Mar 07
I think your cd key used by others as you have on your tower.
May be due excessive usage Microsoft blocked that key.
@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
12 Mar 07
did you install the program more than 3 times? i heard once its only valid for 2 or 3 tries. didnt find out now, because i had not to reinstall it since i have it. maybe you should contact them about this problem. it sucks to hear that. more and more to pay grrrrrrrrr
@khusboo (28)
• India
12 Mar 07
thats why people use pirated windows. And even the microsoft gives update for it. hhaaaa. it's just true.
@Slider2732 (186)
• United States
12 Mar 07
If you bought the PC from a shop then it raises more problems.
You will no doubt be of the opinion that your copy was legal, but if they stuck another serial on the case and used one copy of an XP disk to install to many machines, then that could be the issue.
Not wishing to be a scare monger or anything, but colour laser printers aren't too expensive nowadays !
Main thing, to my mind, is whether you have that original disk case.
If it was bought from someone else then i'd guess their hard drive messed up, they (or a service agent) put XP back on and cos of the messing around they sold the machine. That could also be why the serials don't match.
