woman at this course i go to 3 nights a week ask me if i would take a look at her laptop a Presario P500 Compaq as it wont login. Oh no problem So i took the laptop home said i would have it up and running by morning.
Start up the laptop get to login screen, login with a message:
"Windows Home Edition is not yet activated do you wish to activate windows online now?:
Ah no & log out. Activation! She never mentioned about an activation no wonder she can't log in silly old bint!
Connect my internet cable to the lan slot in laptop and proceed to login this time answering yes to the activation online. Wait a good 10-12min, then I read this:
"This copy of Windows Home edition is not genuine please click on the link provided to read about piracy and copyrights. Then windows locks up.
Should note this woman is a grandmother. Last person i would of thought of having a pirated copy of windows installed! lol
So there was no log in problem all was needed was an activation but windows is not geniune so activation aint going to happen. I ring her up telling her the problem and the simple way to fix it is to just buy a copy of windows and activate it.
'Oh yes it came with Vista (geniune copy) but the laptop went to slow so a friend put on Windows Home edition, but what do they mean by activation I already brought the computer with Vista on it, like hell I'm not paying for another activation! Look mate all i want is the laptop for the course and to browse the internet isn't there any way you could get pass this activation?
Well really there is one other way i could do this but... Look mate! As long as i can log into the computer without any activation problem I'll use it.
Um Okay she'll be ready in the morning.
Sweet thankyou very much.
So I wiped windows & started the installation of Linux Ubuntu
And if she finds Ubuntu to hard to figure out well she just have to put Vista back on...
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