A mate of mine bought a laptop a few months ago off Buy and Sell which came with Windows 2000 on it. A month or so ago he decided taht he wanted Windows XP on it and bought an upgrade package. He installed it and that was that.
A couple of quirks were happening to the laptop - Windows help wasn't letting him in, Windows media player wasn't working so he called me over. From my uneducated eyes the laptop seems to indicate that the software on his machine was not legal. He showed me the receipt the CD and the licence number for his upgrade and it was indeed bought legally which seems to me that it must have been the original windows 2000 that was illegal.
Has anyone any idea on how to go about undoing this mess?? If you go to a Dell / PC world or any of those will they give him grief for the original software.
A couple of quirks were happening to the laptop - Windows help wasn't letting him in, Windows media player wasn't working so he called me over. From my uneducated eyes the laptop seems to indicate that the software on his machine was not legal. He showed me the receipt the CD and the licence number for his upgrade and it was indeed bought legally which seems to me that it must have been the original windows 2000 that was illegal.
Has anyone any idea on how to go about undoing this mess?? If you go to a Dell / PC world or any of those will they give him grief for the original software.