Sad news.

[Caran]

Our computer died today, we had 3 days warning that it would go unless we reactivated it. We tried our recovery disc no good. When we bought it it had XP home on it, we had it updated a couple of years later to XP Pro, so the disc could not work as it was XP home. We tried all sorts of different codes but none would reactivate it. So we have bought another one. Should get it Tuesday/Wednesday. Problem is it has Open Office on it and I am used to Excel. Have saved all my documents and photos on a memory thingy so will have to fathom out what to do, tho' I'm sure SIL will help out.
Trouble is I'm too old and cannot really be bothered to have to learn all over again a new system. Thank heavens I have my laptop but this is not connected to the printer (couldn't fathom out how to do it) I also have not got Excel on here, so have to use main one for any letters or spreadsheets.
Not a question more of a get it off my chest.

[squarebear]

You had 3 days warning it would go? What warned you?

Sounds like you have a virus/malware to me.

[RATTER15]

Your licence expired on your operating system so you bought a new PC/laptop, please tell me I got the wrong end of the stick?

[RATTER15]

Alarm bells are ringing!!!

[MarkRae]

This makes no sense at all. Windows licences don't expire, and don't need to be reactivated on the same machine unless its underlying hardware changes significantly.

[Caran]

We had a major melt down on the pc where nothing worked, all seized up.
Got someone in to look at it. After 2 hours of trying everything he said the only thing to do was to wipe it and rebuild it. This would be expensive so we said leave it we will buy a new one.
I don't understand either what happened.
Ratter15 Why are alarm bells ringing?
This is not a wind up.

[shaneystar2]

Do you think it was the kiss of death ? This happened to us a few years ago.
It just went .The hard drive failed .But we had no warning .
Lost loads of stuff .Took it a computer chap but he couldn't recover it .