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Today I installed windows XP on a computer but windows will not let me log on until windows is activated.

The 2 options are online and on the phone.

 

1st I selected Online, but the computer wouldn't activate,

Then I called up Microsoft and the answering machine transferred me into support, then the fuckhead hanged up on me!

 

What do I do?

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Today I installed windows XP on a computer but windows will not let me log on until windows is activated.

The 2 options are online and on the phone.

 

1st I selected Online, but the computer wouldn't activate,

Then I called up Microsoft and the answering machine transferred me into support, then the fuckhead hanged up on me!

 

What do I do?

call again

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Yeah I would assume they won't activate it any more since it's so old, but who knows

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hung up

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They could have told me instead of hanging up on me.

I want this computer to use for programs that DON'T work of the newer versions of windows!

Do they not run in compatibility mode either? 

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They could have told me instead of hanging up on me.

I want this computer to use for programs that DON'T work of the newer versions of windows!

You should look into running Linux + Wine.  It's possible that your app is supported.

 

Other than that, you may be able to download a VM of XP somewhere and use that.  Any app old enough to need XP will probably run fine in a VM on modern hardware.

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Do they not run in compatibility mode either? 

I have NEVER seen anything that gets fixed by using "Compatibility Mode"

 

You should look into running Linux + Wine.  It's possible that your app is supported.

 

Other than that, you may be able to download a VM of XP somewhere and use that.  Any app old enough to need XP will probably run fine in a VM on modern hardware.

OK TY, I'll try vine!

The problem with the VM is that I will have the same problem with not being able to activate windows, meaning I cannot log on so it is useless.

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Yeah I would assume they won't activate it any more since it's so old, but who knows

 

call again

 

Better try to call back

But windows xp went out of support so I'm not sure if you can even still activate it (not certain about this statement)

The next guy didn't hang up.

He tried to help, but it didn't work!

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I have NEVER seen anything that gets fixed by using "Compatibility Mode"

 

OK TY, I'll try vine!

The problem with the VM is that I will have the same problem with not being able to activate windows, meaning I cannot log on so it is useless.

If you find one that is activated already it shouldn't matter.  I had an OEM copy of XP on a machine of mine a long time ago, and I always created VMs of it on it to use on it.  I got a new machine and couldn't install that XP in a VM on the new machine, but I could install it on the old machine and then move the VM, and XP continued to work :D

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If you find one that is activated already it shouldn't matter.  I had an OEM copy of XP on a machine of mine a long time ago, and I always created VMs of it on it to use on it.  I got a new machine and couldn't install that XP in a VM on the new machine, but I could install it on the old machine and then move the VM, and XP continued to work :D

2 months ago I formatted 8 computers HDD's that had XP installed on them.

I think I may still have 1 computer that has XP installed, but it is IDE!

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2 months ago I formatted 8 computers HDD's that had XP installed on them.

I think I may still have 1 computer that has XP installed, but it is IDE!

 

I'm not sure if that will help... you might be able to read the disk image and make a VM disk image out of it, but I just meant that if I installed XP on a machine that was allowed (which would no longer work) it could be moved to an invalid machine and would still run.  So if you can find a VM of an activated XP install somewhere it should still work on your machine.

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I have NEVER seen anything that gets fixed by using "Compatibility Mode"

 

OK TY, I'll try vine!

The problem with the VM is that I will have the same problem with not being able to activate windows, meaning I cannot log on so it is useless.

How many things have you tried? 1? I've fixed numerous problems using it, its my go to attempt at fixing problematic software.

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Lots, more than 10 different things.

what type of computer was this? a computer that had windows xp already instaled and you just wiped the hard drive to get a clean install?

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