Old lady lost windows xp

[Karl F. Larsen]

John Heinen wrote:
> John Heinen wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>   
> 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
> 
	Buy the cheapest Shuttle kit and YOU get it right with 
whatever Windoz you want and take this non-Ubuntu question to 
another list.


73 Karl


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