Does a repair install require product activation like a clean install does?

Alias

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
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> Does a repair install require product activation like a clean install
> does?
>
> Alias

No. With a repair install, you are just repairing the os. As a side note,
depending on what type of os you have, reactivating is not done with a clean
install, either.. I have an oem, reactivated, and have done at least 3 clean
installs that I can recall, and I never had to reactivate the product.

Every repair install I've ever done (lots, probably over 400 total) I've had
to activate via microsoft... And a lot of the time, I had to do it over the
phone...

It's really not that hard, I used to just ask for "rajeeth" to activate all
my stuff, he was a no nonsense kinda guy, and when I was calling in to
activate 5-6 computers at a time... He always hooked us up..

I don't think he works there anymore though


On 12/14/06 5:44 AM, in article OVgK9U3HHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote:

> Does a repair install require product activation like a clean install does?
>
> Alias

Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.

Office 2004 Test Drive User wrote:
> Every repair install I've ever done (lots, probably over 400 total) I've had
> to activate via microsoft... And a lot of the time, I had to do it over the
> phone...
>
> It's really not that hard, I used to just ask for "rajeeth" to activate all
> my stuff, he was a no nonsense kinda guy, and when I was calling in to
> activate 5-6 computers at a time... He always hooked us up..
>
> I don't think he works there anymore though
>
>
> On 12/14/06 5:44 AM, in article OVgK9U3HHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote:
>
>> Does a repair install require product activation like a clean install does?
>>
>> Alias
>
> Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.
>

I have an English version of XP but live in Spain. I wonder who I will
have to call to activate, someone in Bolivia?

Alias