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I have two perfectly legitimately-obtained copies of Windows XP SP2 installed on the two house computers. Neither of them will allow themselves to be activated, preventing them from having security patches installed, requiring me to make what I'm sure is going to be an excruciating telephone experience sometime tomorrow.
Doing a quick Google for the solution returns several dozen ways to circumvent the activation procedure, but I figured if I've actually spent money for the stupid thing, I should go ahead and do everything by the book.
But yeah, this is not encouragement to do so in the future. Being good is more trouble than it's worth.
Doing a quick Google for the solution returns several dozen ways to circumvent the activation procedure, but I figured if I've actually spent money for the stupid thing, I should go ahead and do everything by the book.
But yeah, this is not encouragement to do so in the future. Being good is more trouble than it's worth.