A Bouquet for Microsoft

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Kissing Lettuce

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I've nearly fixed my PC . yay

Big thankyou to everyone who replied regarding the audio
problem with the 2 second echo on music cds. Problem is
it's a Windows bug and moreso if your registry gets corrupted
for some really obscure reason

Now I can't do a clean install as I no longer have my Win98
CD so I took a trip to the Dark Side.......

I phoned Microsoft and explained my situation. They asked if
I had the original certificate of authenticity from Win98.
I explained that when I lost the CD that had gotten lost too.
The only thing I have from my original purchase is the user manual.

So they asked if I could scan the front and back cover of my
Windows XP Home CD folder and I did that sending that to their
orders section as an email. Originally they had asked if I had
a certificate from the XP packaging but I said that the box was
long gone and it never had one of those stuck on it but only
a sticker saying it was assembled in Singapore....

Anyway to cut a long story short they are sending me another
Windows XP Home CD but not the same version I have the full
version CD. OMG and for only $41.50 inclusive of postage....

Seems my computer shop ripped me off on the OEM version by $100
but I'm not complaining as I did want it but geez I wish I had
known Microsoft would be quite understanding......
 
"Kissing Lettuce" <sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42F8391C.86EAA35A@internode.on.net...
Now I can't do a clean install as I no longer have my Win98
CD so I took a trip to the Dark Side.......
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You couldn't just logon to your computer and use Keyfinder to tell you your
registration number?
 
Derry Air wrote:

"Kissing Lettuce" <sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42F8391C.86EAA35A@internode.on.net...

Now I can't do a clean install as I no longer have my Win98
CD so I took a trip to the Dark Side.......


You couldn't just logon to your computer and use Keyfinder to tell you your
registration number?
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And your point is?????????

I can do all that but it's still going to ask for a previous version CD
at the start of the install.
 
Derry Air wrote:
"Kissing Lettuce" <sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42F8391C.86EAA35A@internode.on.net...

Now I can't do a clean install as I no longer have my Win98
CD so I took a trip to the Dark Side.......


You couldn't just logon to your computer and use Keyfinder to tell
you your registration number?
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or Belarc?
 
Kissing Lettuce wrote:

I've nearly fixed my PC . yay
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Yay to you too.

Anyway to cut a long story short they are sending me another
Windows XP Home CD but not the same version I have the full
version CD. OMG and for only $41.50 inclusive of postage....
Click to expand...
Lemme get this straight. You paid $41.50 for an O/S (inclusive of postage)
when you could have got one which works a damned sight better for free?
Methinks you have paid too much :)

Seems my computer shop ripped me off on the OEM version by $100
but I'm not complaining as I did want it but geez I wish I had
known Microsoft would be quite understanding..
Click to expand...
Don't blame your computer shop for ripping you off cos he got ripped off
himself!! :)
 
And Now the part where I kick myself..........


I just did the reinstall today with my existing XP CD.......

Here are a few things that happened that I did not expect to happen

When the installation started I was given the option to either repair the
existing setup or do a fresh installation. OK Here is where I thought it
might want my old CD...

So I let it continue and it then asked which partition I wanted Windows
to go on. I then said to use the existing drive. So it begins to reformat the
drive and do a clean install and I never got asked at all to show it any previous
version of Windows...

I'd love to know how it skipped that step. Not game to reproduce this just
in case it does actually fuck up and ask for the old windows disk as it's now
stable and running.

The new CD they sent is indeed a full version including the dreaded SP2.....

It also has as part of the etched hologram "Not for retail. Not for OEM"
 
Moses Lim wrote:


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Don't blame your computer shop for ripping you off cos he got ripped off
himself!! :)
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Quite true. One must wonder what the 'actual' price of such software
would be without the huge markup?
 
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:36:29 +0930, Kissing Lettuce
<sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote:

Moses Lim wrote:


snip



Don't blame your computer shop for ripping you off cos he got ripped off
himself!! :)



Quite true. One must wonder what the 'actual' price of such software
would be without the huge markup?
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It would be astronomical.

It amuses me sometimes that in spite of the constant complaints by
Microsoft and others about the "huge rates of software pi racy and the
10's of billions a year that it costs them in lost sales/profits",
Mr. Gates still has became the world's richest man. (or pretty close
to it).
 
"Kissing Lettuce" <sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42FCACB7.41F70C6C@internode.on.net...
And Now the part where I kick myself..........


I just did the reinstall today with my existing XP CD.......

Here are a few things that happened that I did not expect to happen

When the installation started I was given the option to either repair the
existing setup or do a fresh installation. OK Here is where I thought it
might want my old CD...

So I let it continue and it then asked which partition I wanted Windows
to go on. I then said to use the existing drive. So it begins to reformat
the
drive and do a clean install and I never got asked at all to show it any
previous
version of Windows...

I'd love to know how it skipped that step. Not game to reproduce this just
in case it does actually fuck up and ask for the old windows disk as it's
now
stable and running.
Click to expand...
It only happens when the drive cant be read or there is no Windows to be
found.
 
Derry Air wrote:

"Kissing Lettuce" <sittingbythepool@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:42FCACB7.41F70C6C@internode.on.net...
And Now the part where I kick myself..........


I just did the reinstall today with my existing XP CD.......

Here are a few things that happened that I did not expect to happen

When the installation started I was given the option to either repair the
existing setup or do a fresh installation. OK Here is where I thought it
might want my old CD...

So I let it continue and it then asked which partition I wanted Windows
to go on. I then said to use the existing drive. So it begins to reformat
the
drive and do a clean install and I never got asked at all to show it any
previous
version of Windows...

I'd love to know how it skipped that step. Not game to reproduce this just
in case it does actually fuck up and ask for the old windows disk as it's
now
stable and running.


It only happens when the drive cant be read or there is no Windows to be
found.
Click to expand...


Thanks for that

So it read the old stuff off the drive before reformatting I take it??
 
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