Why is Windows Xp Cd only good for two tries

Nope,there was no mistake.It has happened to me,my various family members and friend's.The companies want to get every dime they can from the little man.Why do you think Bill Gate's is so rich? He probably does not even know this is going on.From interviews I have seen him and his wife seem like nice people.Microsoft is a very big company and he can not know everyone that is running the company.So,I don't blame him.But the people under him come up with these money making strategies to keep their jobs,get promotions and pay raises.

We followed it before, but the activation did not work. I used the Cd key on my friend's computer and they said it was now expired. The only phone number was so we had to buy a new key, and that would cost $129, there was no phone number to replace.

That really does seem odd. When activation fails it should give you a phone number and a long maybe 20 digit code. You call the number, speak the excessively long code about 5 numbers at a time, and then you recieve a confirmation code to use on your computer so you can activate it. If that fails you can be routed through to a human being. As for Bill Gates being a nice guy, he actually has very little involvement with Microsoft at this point. He now spends most of his time managing the Gates Foundation, a non-profit organization he runs. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm Perhaps the person he left in charge of Microsoft is just trying to screw people now. It wouldn't surprise me.

That was what I was wondering. You are right about not making any sense unless it is a new thing to make us pay more.

I did not have any problem with downloading all the stuff I did when I was a newby with my Window's 95 or '98 later.Then when I got XP,that when it started happening.I think they are all working hand in hand,like a lot of our government agencies do, and they all make more money.

It is not my computer, it was hers and the Computer business man who installed the Xp, used one of the keys Microsoft gave him and when my husband formatted her drive he did not have time to write down the key because her computer kept turning on and off all the time. The guy who changed her computer from ME to Xp did not give her a Cd, and he no longer kept the records from that period.

It is hard to tell what programs are right and wrong.Sometime's I found it comes from email's people have sent you too.Their was a virus that was attacking yahoo adress book's that some hacker's put in.I like Yahoo!.Can't blame them.If the hacker's are good enough they can get in anywhere.But,it would make it look like a friend on your adress book was trying to send you a virus.

It was not MY computer, it was a friend of mine and she had been recommended to use Zone Alarm from her isp, MTS. They do not get Shaw Cable out there. She learned later that MTS had complaints about Zone Alarm, and by rights, they should pay for the new key she would need, but I suppose they won't.

You are right. I am very careful about the programs I install. I have some standard ones I always use, but my friend is a beginning computer user, and is hardly on it except to print out her recipes, grocery lists, and address book. So if she sees a new program and she can use it, she downloads it and if it conflicts, she may have to format her computer or call us up to come over to her place and do it for her.

I bought mine before Service Pack 2 and since I no longer had that computer that had been updated from Windows ME, I was going to give my friend it. But she could only use it to reinstall, and not put in any other Windows programs.