How I bought windows
First of all, I have to say that I have been using Linux at home for a year, and for working purposes - for several years at all.
Of course, I became an adherent of free, free and legal software. But sometimes you want to relax, play, and most game developers just ignore my favorite systems. Only for this I had to install windows at home. The disk that was once attached to the laptop - WinXP sp1 came in handy.
The system refused to be activated by the old key. I no longer want to get involved with cracks and patches, first of all for ethical reasons - I myself am a programmer, after all. Let's leave the reasoning about how much money MS and its managers have already earned, behind the scenes - in this particular case, I wanted to remain honest with myself.
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So, windows update downloaded the genuine advantage kit. She said that everything was bad for me and offered to buy this very GA kit, for only $ 99. This price suited me perfectly, for this they gave me a CD Key and promised to send a new WinXP distribution within a month.
Payment passed without problems, the key was given to me and offered to activate it. Only for this you need to download an additional utility and through it patch the current, already installed copy.
It would seem, that's all ... Only this utility - KeyUpdate - cannot patch me and stupidly falls. That is, I cannot activate the operating system ms, because the utility ms, designed for this purpose, falls and cannot finish the work. Q.E.D.
PS
I will communicate with support, of course - I gave the money. An employee of the activation center bounced me to call somewhere else. In this situation, one consolation is the promised CD distribution.
Of course, I became an adherent of free, free and legal software. But sometimes you want to relax, play, and most game developers just ignore my favorite systems. Only for this I had to install windows at home. The disk that was once attached to the laptop - WinXP sp1 came in handy.
The system refused to be activated by the old key. I no longer want to get involved with cracks and patches, first of all for ethical reasons - I myself am a programmer, after all. Let's leave the reasoning about how much money MS and its managers have already earned, behind the scenes - in this particular case, I wanted to remain honest with myself.
')
So, windows update downloaded the genuine advantage kit. She said that everything was bad for me and offered to buy this very GA kit, for only $ 99. This price suited me perfectly, for this they gave me a CD Key and promised to send a new WinXP distribution within a month.
Payment passed without problems, the key was given to me and offered to activate it. Only for this you need to download an additional utility and through it patch the current, already installed copy.
It would seem, that's all ... Only this utility - KeyUpdate - cannot patch me and stupidly falls. That is, I cannot activate the operating system ms, because the utility ms, designed for this purpose, falls and cannot finish the work. Q.E.D.
PS
I will communicate with support, of course - I gave the money. An employee of the activation center bounced me to call somewhere else. In this situation, one consolation is the promised CD distribution.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16941/
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