Windows Genuine Advantage
Sparky Spartacus, The problem that is that programs like Jelly Bean, that they may show = the master COA that Dell uses at the factory to install the OS. Not the = COA that MS has on record for Dell users, buttigned to the individual = machine. In addition if you reinstall XP with the Dell Restore Disk, and = leave the CD in the PC during installation, you are not asked to = "activate" the PC using the machine's COA, because of a BIOS = verification process. Again the BIOS verification process uses the Dell = factory-master COA, to tell XP, that the OS has been activated.
I have tried the Jelly Bean software, it is not accurate. I tried it on = my Dell Dimension 4600 with MS Works Suite 2002 installed, that I = purchased through Dell. The Jelly Bean program gave inaccurate COA's for = both the OS and Works Suite. It merged the keys, showing parts of the = key for the Works Suite, for the OS, and some parts of the Works' key as = part of the OS's key.
Belarc Advisor, works much better. But remember unless you manually = performed the activation process, in the installation process. It will = show the master Dell COA for the key for XP.
nbsp; The C610 and the C640 have the same arrangements in their guts. I started out, in my C640, with a Dell TrueMobile 1450 card that I...
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Hank Arnold
and, to add one further on to that, the university my son is going to = next year has requested (and I don't know how strong that request...
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I have a legal copy of XP (included on my Dim 8400), but MS's software=20 was unable to validate it. It rejected the key I obtained with=20 MagicalJellybean as well as the key from the COA on the side of the = case.