   I hate windows genuine validation!
  I've always had a problem with my brothers laptop, it's always been full of spyware. So occasionally I have to reformat it for him and update windows, because he doesn't do it himself. Now when we got this laptop a few years ago it came with a toshiba recovery disc that contains a ghost of the hard disk. But it fails the windows validation, apparently this isn't uncommon. But what's even worse, I work my way through the windows genuine support services to get it validated, and they don't support validation on anything but actual windows discs. There is a serial on the bottom of this thing, but it's up to the manufactures if they include an image rather then a disc.This windows validation crap really ticks me off, and I take it in the end from my parents. Compaining to me that his computer is messed up again, because of this stupid validation thing I have to fix it every other month. I could save myself time if it just updated on it's own ...The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 1110. Any suggestions to get this thing validated? (I've checked the manufactures website, I can't seem to find any information worth while)   
  If you have a license key, just copy a CD of a mate or something.IANAL, but I believe this is perfectly legal.   ;  Whne I go through the windows validation support I get up to the part where it makes you select the CD, all three of them are professional discs. But this computer came with WinXP Home ed.   ;  This is weird. I've never been asked for any sort of CD when I've used the Genuine Validation tool thingy.   ;  Windows complains about my installation not being validation. The only thing keeping me using Windows is because I am downloading a 14GB file on it (using BitComet, which saves the files it downloads in a de facto format) so once this file has downloaded (97% done) I think I'll be fully linuxified (assuming I don't get the urge to play CS).   ;Quote:Original post by PumpkinPiemanThis windows validation crap really ticks me off, and I take it in the end from my parents. Compaining to me that his computer is messed up again, because of this stupid validation thing I have to fix it every other month. I could save myself time if it just updated on it's own ...I once had to fix this windows that wouldn't validate and so couldn't download off microsoft update website. Turns out you can still set it to Automatic Update to get the recent patches, and so far the machine has survived. Just use a decent set of firewall/antivirus tools and train your brothers common sense when surfing. If only game developers would allow us to install and play games as unprivileged users, then I wouldn't have to fix so many damn pc's!/dc   ;Quote:Original post by Don CarnageQuote:Original post by PumpkinPiemanThis windows validation crap really ticks me off, and I take it in the end from my parents. Compaining to me that his computer is messed up again, because of this stupid validation thing I have to fix it every other month. I could save myself time if it just updated on it's own ...I once had to fix this windows that wouldn't validate and so couldn't download off microsoft update website. Turns out you can still set it to Automatic Update to get the recent patches, and so far the machine has survived. Just use a decent set of firewall/antivirus tools and train your brothers common sense when surfing. If only game developers would allow us to install and play games as unprivileged users, then I wouldn't have to fix so many damn pc's!/dcRunAs... :)You can use it to install the game and run it as a higher user. Simple.   ;  Runas is good to have, but you can't tell someone who's not very computer literate to log on to other accounts when installing (two passwords and in case of runas a "weird" shift-right click.) In my experience they will end up just using the admin account, which I think is bad.Many games have trouble installing as anything but admin, and also refuse to run as normal user, although in some cases it can be fixed by setting the games directory and file privileges. Again not something ordinary user Joe would care to figure out. He'll just use the admin account! :(/dc   ;Quote:Original post by MaegaRunAs... :)You can use it to install the game and run it as a higher user. Simple.Can this be used to bypass permission problems? Like for example when I try and install certain applications on my PC at work I get the error where I don't have admin access to install. (I honestly didn't know about RunAs ...)   ;Quote:Original post by PumpkinPiemanQuote:Original post by MaegaRunAs... :)You can use it to install the game and run it as a higher user. Simple.Can this be used to bypass permission problems? Like for example when I try and install certain applications on my PC at work I get the error where I don't have admin access to install. (I honestly didn't know about RunAs ...)You need the admin username/password.