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Office XP proffessional Activation

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by geyzer

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I had to reformat my laptop which had already installed and activated office xp.Now when I re-install again and try to re-activate on the same laptop it denies me activation saying another pc has that copy.What should I do or how does the re-installations of these XP's on the same one pc go about.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

This means that someone else or more probably many people have a copy of your license key and have used it to install XP on their machine. They've then activated it. Only one activation on different hardware can happen every 90 days.

If this is a legitimate copy of XP and you are the rightful owner, then you should be able to call Microsoft and have them reset the activation for you. I dont know what proof of ownership you'll need to supply, though.

I'm not sure what the phone number is off hand but it'll be on their website.

Cheers,
Tim.

by dmiles

When the configuration changes have been activated,by the previous configuration on your computer and now it thinks that you are installing a copy to a new machine

So,you will need to call Microsoft technical support to get the activation code toreset for the current configuration.

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