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for some reason, MS thinks my copy of xp is pirated...
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Did you loan out your CD Key? Is it legal? You can run regedit and drill down to HKEY LM, SW, MS, Windows. Somewhere in that area is the hive with the CD key, just ream it out and place anything you want
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Did you buy a retail copy? OEM? Or did you download it from some P2P site? Reason I ask is that I worked on a woman's computer recently, and could NOT update it via either Microsoft's site, nor the Security CD they sent me. It turned out to be a pirate copy, and what sucked even worse, was that the system builder (local guy, not a name brand) stuck a pirate copy on the system, but charged her for a OEM install. She had to get a legit copy before I could finish reinstalling the OS (which it needed anyways).