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I cannot believe this. I truly cannot believe this..
I had a virus on my machine about a week ago, which I foolishly got when installing Samsung kies software from a non-trusted source. I was in a hurry, on the phone with someone, and I just installed it using all defaults rather than being careful, so I wound up with a virus. I managed to get that removed later, but my machine just did not run as snappy as it should of afterwards, despite devoting some serious time to cleanup. So, I opted to reload Windows. Call it early summer PC cleaning.
I purchased the upgrade version of windows 8 back when it originally came out for $39 bucks. I thought it was a pretty dang good deal. I have been using it ever since. A few months after in came out, Microsoft started giving away free Media Center upgrades, which I went ahead and took advantage of. I have a genuine Windows 8 DVD set, and in that set, I have my genuine product key, along with my upgrade to Media center product key, all of which is nicely stored in a little desk drawer here.
Unfortunately, my product key does not enable me to get an iso of Windows 8.1, so to re-install windows, I had to use the original DVD, then go through close to 115 updates, then update to windows 8.1, a process which I completed yesterday afternoon. It took about 3 hours. All good though, that is what spring cleaning is all about.
This morning, I clicked the Add Features to Windows button, and entered my Windows Media Center product key. That is when the trouble started. I came back to my machine later today, and got a pop up stating that I need to activate windows. I thought, ok, no biggie, I'll just jump through a few hoops here, after all, everything I have here is purchased and is completely legit. Nope. 1.5 hours later, including a fair amount of time trying to puzzle out how to call out to Microsoft, and I was just told by the last guy, that I need to reload Windows once again, and cannot use the Windows Media Center key that I was given to upgrade to Windows Media center.
I said, "Can't you just remove Windows Media Center, and... IF this key is no good, then why did it say it was good, and allow me to install Windows Media Center in the first place??"
It should have popped up a message straight away that said, "We are sorry for the inconvenience, but if you proceed and use the Media center key we gave you a few years ago to install Media center, it will put your PC in an un-fixable state, and you will have no choice but to waste 3 hours of your time re-installing Windows yet again. Please burn this key, and forget we ever gave it to you. Just use the one that you purchased going forward and forget all about Windows Media center. We would gladly give you some of the crack we have been smoking over here of late in recompense, but unfortunately, that would be illegal. It sure is some good stuff though..."
Cuz that is literally where I am at now folks, and yep, I am a paying customer. Not only did I just lose 1.5 hours talking with multiple folks on the phone, and having them remote into my machine to try to rescue my installation, but now I have been told, sorry, you must reload windows yet again.. That is the only way out of your situation.
I hope this is making sense. At this moment, I hate all things Microsoft. This is a total load of BS. They should be paying me for my lost time because they are the ones who screwed up my computer.
I had a virus on my machine about a week ago, which I foolishly got when installing Samsung kies software from a non-trusted source. I was in a hurry, on the phone with someone, and I just installed it using all defaults rather than being careful, so I wound up with a virus. I managed to get that removed later, but my machine just did not run as snappy as it should of afterwards, despite devoting some serious time to cleanup. So, I opted to reload Windows. Call it early summer PC cleaning.
I purchased the upgrade version of windows 8 back when it originally came out for $39 bucks. I thought it was a pretty dang good deal. I have been using it ever since. A few months after in came out, Microsoft started giving away free Media Center upgrades, which I went ahead and took advantage of. I have a genuine Windows 8 DVD set, and in that set, I have my genuine product key, along with my upgrade to Media center product key, all of which is nicely stored in a little desk drawer here.
Unfortunately, my product key does not enable me to get an iso of Windows 8.1, so to re-install windows, I had to use the original DVD, then go through close to 115 updates, then update to windows 8.1, a process which I completed yesterday afternoon. It took about 3 hours. All good though, that is what spring cleaning is all about.
This morning, I clicked the Add Features to Windows button, and entered my Windows Media Center product key. That is when the trouble started. I came back to my machine later today, and got a pop up stating that I need to activate windows. I thought, ok, no biggie, I'll just jump through a few hoops here, after all, everything I have here is purchased and is completely legit. Nope. 1.5 hours later, including a fair amount of time trying to puzzle out how to call out to Microsoft, and I was just told by the last guy, that I need to reload Windows once again, and cannot use the Windows Media Center key that I was given to upgrade to Windows Media center.
I said, "Can't you just remove Windows Media Center, and... IF this key is no good, then why did it say it was good, and allow me to install Windows Media Center in the first place??"
It should have popped up a message straight away that said, "We are sorry for the inconvenience, but if you proceed and use the Media center key we gave you a few years ago to install Media center, it will put your PC in an un-fixable state, and you will have no choice but to waste 3 hours of your time re-installing Windows yet again. Please burn this key, and forget we ever gave it to you. Just use the one that you purchased going forward and forget all about Windows Media center. We would gladly give you some of the crack we have been smoking over here of late in recompense, but unfortunately, that would be illegal. It sure is some good stuff though..."
Cuz that is literally where I am at now folks, and yep, I am a paying customer. Not only did I just lose 1.5 hours talking with multiple folks on the phone, and having them remote into my machine to try to rescue my installation, but now I have been told, sorry, you must reload windows yet again.. That is the only way out of your situation.
I hope this is making sense. At this moment, I hate all things Microsoft. This is a total load of BS. They should be paying me for my lost time because they are the ones who screwed up my computer.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit
- CPU
- Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 635 Processor, 2800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
- Memory
- 8gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GTX 460