Windows Genuine Software: The Continuing Story

Alright, I've hopped through every single one of Microsoft's little hoops. Yes, even the flaming ones. For the life of me, I can't convince this evil little imp they've put in here that my perfectly valid copy of Microsoft is legit. Restarting the ".dll"s involved didn't work, it just seemed pointless and asinine and made me wonder if it was offered as a solution just to make it seem like they cared. I've tried validating it with every piece of software they have, I've tried safe mode. I've tried turning off every piece of security software I've owned. I've tried blocking it with zone alarm, I then tried giving it free reign of my computer. Nothing.

Any suggestions would be awesome. What little good I had in my soul before this minor fiasco has been systematically murdered since. So, if you have any solution either legit or not I'll take it at this point. M$'s happiness is the farthest from my mind right now. I just want to be able to live without this stupid pop up, get my updates, and go to secure websites all like I payed for to begin with.

Honestly, unlegit methods sound better every day, I don't like the idea of this little alien beaming information back to the mothership every week.

Edit: I should add that I'm referring to Windows XP. Built in and sent directly from the Dell factory two years ago and has been untouched by any other human being short of myself.

 

If you own a legit copy of XP, PM me for a solution.

 

set you a PM for another potential sollution.

 

Call Microsoft, get them to sort it out for you.

 

I don't think MS WANTS to fix the problem... so these are some other solutions...

 

But would any of these 'other' solutions have bases in piracy? Or copy-protection circumvention? Or fake keys?

It doesn't sound like the OP has contacted MS directly yet. I believe that would be the most legal, and morally accepted route to take here.

 

Yeah, the standard procedure is simply to call (phone) MS for activation. They give you a crazy long number you have to type in, and you're activated.

Well, either that, or call them, flame them, email bomb threats and complaints, and then switch to Linux.

 

Switch to Linux before or after he gets out of jail? Bomb (and other) threats are a bad idea: Couple of my acquaintances in high school (they were too annoying to be friends) tried to spoof an email threat to Socks the cat. They now get talked to by the secret service every time the President comes to town.