I'm helping out a friend and now I need help. The friend purchased a Compaq laptop from eBay.
Installing a USB wireless adapter in the laptop and decided to also do the Microsoft security updates and load a anti-virus since it didn't have one. The updates went to the validation of the software and it has failed. There is a MS product key on the
bottom that is easily readable. The windows xp update product key did not work.
I then noticed the key is for XP Home Edition. The laptop had XP Pro installed. I have a dusty copy of XP Home Edition (I'm running only Win 7) from a long gone PC. Can I use it and the key on the bottom of the laptop? My copy has a product key on the
box. Really hate to re-install but that is the case.
Does Digital River have a copy of XP Home Edition I can get?
The laptop does not meet the specs for even Vista.
Thanks from me and him.
Darryl
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Installing a USB wireless adapter in the laptop and decided to also do the Microsoft security updates and load a anti-virus since it didn't have one. The updates went to the validation of the software and it has failed. There is a MS product key on the
bottom that is easily readable. The windows xp update product key did not work.
I then noticed the key is for XP Home Edition. The laptop had XP Pro installed. I have a dusty copy of XP Home Edition (I'm running only Win 7) from a long gone PC. Can I use it and the key on the bottom of the laptop? My copy has a product key on the
box. Really hate to re-install but that is the case.
Does Digital River have a copy of XP Home Edition I can get?
The laptop does not meet the specs for even Vista.
Thanks from me and him.
Darryl
View this thread