Getting rid of XP licence protectors

[paudge]

I have recently changed computers. So music that was on my old computer that I had uploaded from various CDs over time was written onto cds so that I could play them and upload them to my new XP computer. But it wont let me play any of them because it says I don't have a licence to do that! Any idea how I can get XP to stop looking for licences permanently?

Cheers

Paudge

[thayne]

Don't use windows media, use mp3 or ogg! You're probably outta luck. That's what drm is for, to keep you from using them on other computers....

[LanEvo7]

Ahh the world of M$. You can convert the songs to mp3 or another format on your old computer.

[Carkey]

I had the same problem. I just formated my drive and put XP back on to realize that some of my .wma's wont work. So I was all mad and stuff, but then windows opened up an explorer window and asked if I wanted to carry over all of the liscences to this computer and then i just said ok and it worked. It poped up automatically so I dont know how to do it manually but I know there is a way. You could try going onto microsoft and searching for something like that. Sorry I couldnt be any more help, but anyway good luck.

[housepig]

use a 3rd party app to rip your cd's (I use AudioCatalyst).