Blocked login
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neilmac

Original Poster:

567 posts

293 months

Wednesday 30th May 2007
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Long story but short question!

Moved to Spain and laptop expired - bought new PC with vista included and, of course, its all in Spanish.

I have installed my old XP Home from my laptop but M/soft won't authenticate it.

Anyway M/soft helpline can't, or won't, help so I have to deal with Spanish retailer to use the Vista licence for my xp (I think!). This I will try, but next time I am in their area. In the meantime the authentication period has just expired and I can no longer log on to my pc. My laptop is now up and running with new hard drive and the original xp is fine.

Is there a way I can get round the login situation until I can get the retailer to sort out the pc properly?

Cheers

Neil

pdV6

16,442 posts

292 months

Wednesday 30th May 2007
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You'll need to use the licence that came with the machine, i.e. Spanish Vista one.

TheExcession

11,669 posts

281 months

Wednesday 30th May 2007
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Neil, YHM.

neilmac

Original Poster:

567 posts

293 months

Wednesday 30th May 2007
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Thanks pdV6, I tried the Vista licence without any success.

TheExcession YHM too....

Cheers

Neil