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<blockquote data-quote="Puppet" data-source="post: 168897" data-attributes="member: 7856"><p>What he got given to him was a cracked version of XP. Back in pre-XP versions it was simple because you didn't have to register the copy. Lots of people had illegal versions of Windows 2000. When XP came out it got a little harder for the thieves due to registration because your registration is based partially on your hardware configuration, so if you tried to register with new hardware and the same copy of XP then the registration process would force you to talk to a person at Microsoft. Anyway, to get around all this they had to hack an XP copy to do it. Microsoft isn't going to be real excited about helping your friend. They can quote you numbers on how much this affects their bottom line. I would suggest first that he get a free copy of spybot at www.spybot.com and try to get rid of his problem. If he is forced to rebuild then I would go buy a copy of XP. It's cheap enough these days. Sorry I'm not full of good news.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Puppet, post: 168897, member: 7856"] What he got given to him was a cracked version of XP. Back in pre-XP versions it was simple because you didn't have to register the copy. Lots of people had illegal versions of Windows 2000. When XP came out it got a little harder for the thieves due to registration because your registration is based partially on your hardware configuration, so if you tried to register with new hardware and the same copy of XP then the registration process would force you to talk to a person at Microsoft. Anyway, to get around all this they had to hack an XP copy to do it. Microsoft isn't going to be real excited about helping your friend. They can quote you numbers on how much this affects their bottom line. I would suggest first that he get a free copy of spybot at www.spybot.com and try to get rid of his problem. If he is forced to rebuild then I would go buy a copy of XP. It's cheap enough these days. Sorry I'm not full of good news. [/QUOTE]
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