[ale] Finding desktops, laptops and hardware in Atlanat

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:50 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> You would not believe the number of people that can't turn up that
>> restore cd collection when the system punts. I'll grant that the main
>> reason for Dell and the like doing it is so they don't have to provide
>> a
>> CD and thus incur the cost of doing so.
> 
> We just got a used laptop and the user did not have a restore CD.  I'm
> not sure what to do if I ever need to reinstall Windoze.  I have the
> license code as a sticker on the bottom but no media.  My guess is that
> a standard copy of home will not recognize that key.

If they did not give you the media or at least the pretty little license 
document (the one with the holograph), then you don't have a legal copy 
of windows.  According to M$.

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Until later, Geoffrey