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Old October 18th 07, 12:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Unable to key product key off my Certificate of Authenticity.

hailey's comet wrote:
| Just wanted to say a THANK YOU,you saved me from having to buy another
| windows for a computer I am giving away. I had contacted dell,
| microsoft and you rescued me!!!!!

He's not here anymore! But I will forward your response to Sing Sing
prison!

| " wrote:
|
| On Oct 2, 5:56 am, gchelp wrote:
| I have a legitproductkeythat I got when I bought my computer many
| many years ago. I decided to wipe my hard drive and format it
| again and then reloadWindows98. When it asked me for
| theWindowsProductKeyI entered it exactly as it is on my
| Certificate of Authenticity and I do not have enough keystrokes
| for it to take the number? Does anyone have any knowledge on who
| I can contact at Microsoft to find out what to do?
|
| Had the same problem. Called Microsoft, they gave me a *generic* key
| that they
| said would work with *all* CDs, and said, "feel free to pass this
| on". I guess since they don't support it anymore, there's no reason
| to keep it a
| secret anymore. Anyway, the generic key is:
| VP9VV-VJW7Q-MHY6W-JK47R-M2KGJ
| Be sure you look closely at the letters. On my LCD monitor, it is
| difficult
| to see the difference between the single letter W and VV, which is
| two letters "V".
| In the first block, VP9 is followed by two V's. The rest are W's.

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Should things get worse after this,
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