Windows XP Activation

[iCraig]

Before you all throw stuff at me, I'm not a pirate. Although I do like booty, yarrr!

Anyway, my home PC has a genuine copy of XP Pro on.

My girlfriends laptop was ****ed beyond repair, it had Windows ME on, tons of spyware, hundreds of bloaty programs, kodak easyshare, hp deskjet crap etc etc. I tried saving her, but I had to resort to formatting in order to clean the laptop properly. However, she then informed me that she no longer had the ME disk to put back on. Not a bad thing actually, I hate ME.

So I installed XP off my disc and used my product code to install it.

Now obviously, it wants me to activate, but it isn't connected to the web, and I need to phone to get the ID etc. They will obviously say "this copy of xp is already in use, by a new one"

1.) We can't afford a new copy of XP.
2.) She's going to want to use the laptop for more than 30 days.

Is there a way to get around the activation? Naughty I know, but I'm sure there's a way.

If this is against BD rules, nuke the thread, I promise I won't mind.