Is there a way to find the registration numbers for programs that come with laptop's? I have a dell inspiron 6000 that had Cyberlink Power DVD program on it. Dell does not send cds with your purchases anymore. I have reinstalled xp (did not do a restore) to clean it out before I realized I would need the registration numbers to reinstall this program - is there a place in the settings somewhere where I can find the registration numbers to this program and others that you don't have a disk for so when I do this again I will have them?
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reinstalling xp & saving info
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I emailed Dell asking what would happen to the MediaDirect functionality if I reinstalled - they sent me all the DVDs with software for my laptop, including XP MCE 2005 SP2 (with all the Dell crap on it, but oh well, I can remove that using nLite) about 2 months ago.
Try emailing support and asking for them. Mine were delivered completely free of charge.
Try emailing support and asking for them. Mine were delivered completely free of charge.
If the laptop came with everything installed, then all your software should be on a partition of its own. In fact a restore or re-insatall from the partion should reload everything that came installed on the Laptop. You can just reinstall from the partition, and shouldn't need a number. So hope you havn't re-partitioned the disk.
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Not necessarily, it's always hidden - but if you use a program like Partition Magic like I did, you can remove it (twas taking up 5GB of my precious 58GB of space, had to go! 
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There is also ANOTHER 1.5GB partition that is somehow even hidden from Partition Magic (don't ask how, I just know it is) which is the Media Direct thing. When you repartition in any way, you must "repair" the MBR (not reinstall it - that's only for NEW or replacement HDDs) so that it can run when you press the MediaDirect button on the laptop.
Of course, if you don't have a MediaDirect button, there's no space being taken up
*can't wait until monday when my new 500GB SATA HDD + Caddy arrive, boosting my HDD space by ~790%*
).There is also ANOTHER 1.5GB partition that is somehow even hidden from Partition Magic (don't ask how, I just know it is) which is the Media Direct thing. When you repartition in any way, you must "repair" the MBR (not reinstall it - that's only for NEW or replacement HDDs) so that it can run when you press the MediaDirect button on the laptop.
Of course, if you don't have a MediaDirect button, there's no space being taken up
*can't wait until monday when my new 500GB SATA HDD + Caddy arrive, boosting my HDD space by ~790%
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