eliseu gouveia
08-26-2008, 04:59 AM
Hello, folks,
I wonder if you could help me out here,
A couple days ago, I had to reinstall Win XP for the first time in this computer.
Instead of taking it to the store, I decided to do it myself.
Everything worked smoothly and I installed ever trinket it used to have, from ffdshow to Photoshop to Open office to Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Everything went back to just the way it used to be.
The problem happened a couple minutes ago.
When I tried to update Win XP, Microsoft´s license verification website claimed that my Win XP copy was not a legitimate one.
This completely blew me away because it IS a legitimate copy which I purchased especificaly for this computer.
I should have suspected earlier that something was wrong when Windows Media Player kept running on an old, default version.
I have no idea of what to do next.
I suspect that the problem may stem from the fact that I entered different informations on the computer while instaling . I used my childhood nickname when the computer asked for the name of the computer´s owner and I made up a name for the computer (Eeeegor, as in the hunchback guy from Monster of Frankenstein :) ..
Could it be that these new different names messed up the license verification over at Microsoft´s website? How can I get through this, since I have NO idea of what names the people at the store gave to my computer when I bought it?
Help...
I wonder if you could help me out here,
A couple days ago, I had to reinstall Win XP for the first time in this computer.
Instead of taking it to the store, I decided to do it myself.
Everything worked smoothly and I installed ever trinket it used to have, from ffdshow to Photoshop to Open office to Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Everything went back to just the way it used to be.
The problem happened a couple minutes ago.
When I tried to update Win XP, Microsoft´s license verification website claimed that my Win XP copy was not a legitimate one.
This completely blew me away because it IS a legitimate copy which I purchased especificaly for this computer.
I should have suspected earlier that something was wrong when Windows Media Player kept running on an old, default version.
I have no idea of what to do next.
I suspect that the problem may stem from the fact that I entered different informations on the computer while instaling . I used my childhood nickname when the computer asked for the name of the computer´s owner and I made up a name for the computer (Eeeegor, as in the hunchback guy from Monster of Frankenstein :) ..
Could it be that these new different names messed up the license verification over at Microsoft´s website? How can I get through this, since I have NO idea of what names the people at the store gave to my computer when I bought it?
Help...