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I blew it!

by marita4 Oct 14, 2005 1:48PM PDT

Hi! I got a new laptop.
It had Windows XP Home Edition.
In college, some students (like me) have the benefit to go and ask the department of Computers for some softwares and they burned them for us and give us a special license (legal) that Microsoft gives them permision for.

As some of you know, to run Visual Basic .Net you need to have XP Professional, so my professor burned it for me.
I installed it on my pc, but i also wanted to install it on my new laptop; so i did.
Then, someone told me that i did WRONG BIG TIME. Because i can't change one for another as that.
And that within 3 months my laptop would be veeery slow but guess what? It's been just a day and i can already tell.

What can i do?
Is my new computer and i really dont want it to messed up.
What should i do?
PLEASE HELP!!
Thanks,

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HELP!
by marita4 Oct 15, 2005 1:13AM PDT

Please help here!!!

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It's been discussed before.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 15, 2005 1:29AM PDT

These forums are not pirate friendly.

In this case, seek help for this pirate OS from the one who supplied the OS.

I think they deserve it.

Bob

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not pirate
by marita4 Oct 15, 2005 3:06AM PDT

I knew this would cause some problems.
But it's not a pirate CD.
Microsoft gives college a license so the Computer professors can make individual copies to *just* the students studying Computers with an individual license for each.

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by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 15, 2005 3:16AM PDT

The school implements a support program for said version.

Use that support system.

What I run into too often is calls for help involving these versions and frankly 99 out of 100 are leaked copies.

Best of luck,

Bob

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Let's ask "What is the issue?"
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 15, 2005 3:25AM PDT

About all I could pull out of your post is "Because i can't change one for another as that."

-> Try this. Define your issue or problem. As it stands your post looks and reads like you are pilfering the OS.

There is a student version of the XP OS, but it still costs money! There is no free student XP OS.

Let me be very blunt here. Pirates are not welcome here.

Bob

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