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Installing Live One Care

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I allowed the 90 day trial to expire before paying the subscription. Microsoft are now telling me I now have no subscription. How o I resolve this and reactivate one care
Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:13 AM
Answers
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If there is no activate link within OneCare for you to follow and activate with your subscription LiveID, you may need to uninstall and reinstall OneCare from http://onecare.live.com
You can contact support for help, if needed -
http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=onecarev2 - use the "Get More Help" link in the lower right of the page to contact support
-steve
Monday, November 19, 2007 1:32 AMModerator
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If there is no activate link within OneCare for you to follow and activate with your subscription LiveID, you may need to uninstall and reinstall OneCare from http://onecare.live.com
You can contact support for help, if needed -
http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=onecarev2 - use the "Get More Help" link in the lower right of the page to contact support
-steve
Monday, November 19, 2007 1:32 AMModerator -
Steve.
I have already uninstalled and reinstalled one care from the web site. If i follow the links from get more help I eventually get the message "we could not find your one care subscription, please sign in with the live id you used to avtivate your subscription"
Dave
Monday, November 19, 2007 6:47 PM -
Check to make sure that you are using the correct LiveID. Sign in at http://billing.microsoft.com to see your OneCare subscription status.
If it is the correct LiveID, you can also sign in at http://support.windowsonecare.live.com to see your support options.
You can follow the support path per the above and select that you are a trial user to avoid subscription validation, in which case you will be able to open an email support case.
-steve
Monday, November 19, 2007 8:01 PMModerator -
I went to the billing address and was informed I do not have an account with microsoft yet the amount is on my credit card bill dated 27th october 2007. My one care live ID allows me to access the site but thats as far as I get.
Regards
Dave
Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:10 PM -
Steve,
This is interesting - I've just paid (yesterday) for the full version and yet the only subscription showing is the beta subscription?
Tom
Saturday, November 24, 2007 4:47 PM -
Update,
I emailed Customer support, but they couldn't help me as they are in North America and cannot help with the UK, so they gave me a link for the UK support and suggested I look at my subscription there. This I did and was brought back to exactly the same webpage as before, which shows I only have a beta subscription.
I emailed them back and they have given me a phone number to ring.
Tom
Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:59 PM -
Further update,
I now find that i have 2 accounts with Microsoft and have found the subscription for the full version. One problem though is that I don't have a key, do i need one?
Tom
Sunday, November 25, 2007 5:30 PM -
Hi,Tom. No key needed. You activate the downloaded trial with the LiveID for your subscription. It sounds like you may have taken the beta offer with a LiveID other than your original subscription perhaps?
-steve
Monday, November 26, 2007 5:09 PMModerator -
Dave Neale wrote: I went to the billing address and was informed I do not have an account with microsoft yet the amount is on my credit card bill dated 27th october 2007. My one care live ID allows me to access the site but thats as far as I get.
Regards
Dave
I think you are using the wrong LiveID to access your subscription, Dave. Any chance you used a different LiveID to purchase? With your credit card and contact information support can tell you the LiveID for your subscription *and* help you get back to activated state.
-steve
Monday, November 26, 2007 5:15 PMModerator -
Hi Steve,
No I only have 1 live ID, I spoke to UK Microsoft this morning and they confirmed that i have a subscription to the non beta version so I'll give it a go.
Tom
Monday, November 26, 2007 5:49 PM -
Okay, I think I understand...
If you sign on at http://billing.microsoft.com you *may* see two subscriptions to OneCare. One is the beta subscription and the other is the production subscription. The same LiveID can hold both subscriptions as the beta one only works with the beta install/environment. So, unless you have a paid subscription, too, activating the trial would fail since the beta subscription created with the beta keys during testing will not work in the production environment.
-steve
Monday, November 26, 2007 6:14 PMModerator -
You got it - easy really
Now your next assignment - Touch Typing for Octopus's, 200 words.
Tom
Monday, November 26, 2007 7:43 PM -
Steve,
Apologies for the delay, I have managed to contact a windows one care technical advisor who is to contact me on friday when I can be at my pc, Thanks for your help.
Regards
Dave
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 6:06 PM -
Thanks, Dave. Keep us posted.
-steve
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 6:18 PMModerator -
how can I buy live one care? or how can I reinstall live one care in the mean time before I buy it?
Sunday, February 3, 2008 10:54 PM -
topearner90 wrote: how can I buy live one care? or how can I reinstall live one care in the mean time before I buy it?
You can reinstall OneCare from http://onecare.live.com and subscribe from within OneCare or purchase OneCare from a retailer and activate the subscription with a retail key.
In which countries and languages is Windows Live OneCare available?
The Windows Live OneCare subscription service is available in the following countries and languages: Australia (English), Austria (German), Belgium (Dutch, French), Canada (English, French), France (French), Germany (German), Ireland (English), Italy (Italian), Japan (Japanese), Mexico (Spanish), Netherlands (Dutch), New Zealand (English), Singapore (English), Spain (Spanish), Switzerland (French, German), United Kingdom (English), United States (English, Spanish).
Pasted from <http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/faq.htm>
-steve
Monday, February 4, 2008 2:54 AMModerator -
I think this is CRIMINAL and Microsoft gets away with it. HOW CAN WE LET NORTON USERS NOT TO SWITCH TO THESEHEADACHES AND LOOSE OUR MONEY?. I am asking credit card to refund my money
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 8:19 PM -
Jorge, can you explain your problem with some more information? What are you trying to do and what has happened?
What have you done with support?
If you have an active subscription shown at http://billing.microsoft.com there is no reason why you can't be helped by support.
-steve
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:16 AMModerator -
I paid subscription 12/27/07. I have copies of purchasing e-mail and can see in OneCare site the payment was received and it says that program is ENABLED. Program end up installing the Trial 90 days version ,that I could not get rid off and the annoying Message to purchase license as expiration was coming soon. Finally when it expired last week, it still does not allows me to install anything and request me to pay AGAIN, when you can see subscription expires 12/27/08
There has been three months of trying to contact anyone in Microsoft to help and nothing happen, not even a courtesy e-mail back. I work on the networks industry and I take care of clients needs. I would be ashame of this kind of service if I were working over there. As far as payment went through not complications, after my money was on Microsoft hands, nothing happens on my favor, anything wrong with that picture?
There is not even a link anywhere for support.
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:51 PM -
Thanks for clarifying the situation, Jorge.
Every time you install OneCare it is a trial mode. You then activate with the LiveID for your subscription. If you activated and paid for a subscription from within OneCare and it never reflected that your subscription was active in OneCare, then something may have blocked the receipt of the subscription information. If you are then trying to subscribe from within OneCare, and you use a different LiveID, it will ask for payment information.
At this point, I suggest that you uninstall OneCare, use the cleanup tool -
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=828910&SiteID=2
and then reinstall OneCare from http://onecare.live.com
Since you can see the active subscription at http://billing.microsoft.com - use that LiveID to activate your reinstalled OneCare using the subscribe link in OneCare. If it still does not recognize your subscription and you provided the correct LiveID, then you should contact support for help as your reinstall will expire in 15 days until you activate.
How to reach support (FAQ) - http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2421771&SiteID=2
Support will be via email, but you can request the phone number when you provide your subscription LiveID in your support form. If you have trouble reaching support still, please send me an email at sboots@mvps.org with a subject line including "OneCare" (to get past my spam filtering) and in the message body, tell me what country you are in, your forum nickname, and paste a link to the post to which you are replying. I am not online 24x7, so you may be waiting for a reply, but I'll do my best to hook you up with support.-steve
Friday, April 11, 2008 12:55 AMModerator -
I have a current subscription to One Care, however I cannot remember either my Live ID or password. I cannot, after hours of searching online, find any "live" help. The problem is... my One Care program WILL NOT OPEN on the computer I installed it on. I've been attempting to install my alloted second subcription to my other computer but cannot do so because I can't get my original downloaded program to even open. I cannot open the OneCare program in order to access the About tab in order to get my 20 digit ID, and I can't recall my "Live ID" and "password" in order to go any further with the available online "help". Is there not a true Live Help option for people who need to talk to people?
I know my payment info plus additional personal info must be on file with Microsoft to validate my subscription. How do I reach a real person to overcome this hurdle in recognizing my valid subscription so I can re-install the program on my current computer and my second computer.
Thank you.
Peter Lee
(willing to supply needed info upon request)
Saturday, May 3, 2008 3:20 AM -
If you don't recall the LiveID you used for your subscription, you will need to contact support who can provide that information to you using your Key and/or contact information.
How to reach support (FAQ) - http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2421771&SiteID=2
Alternatively, sign in at http://billing.microsoft.com with email addresses that you have set up as LiveIDs and one will show your subscription listed - that would the LiveID to use to activate with.
-steve
Monday, May 5, 2008 1:34 PMModerator -
Steve.
I have renewed my subscription. It is shown as such inyour billing dept. I do not get a 1 ball in my syst.tray. I have no indication that Live one i working. I only see pages about how simple it is to use. How easy it is to program. How wonderful it will be for me. With my original free 30 day trial, I only got messages counting down the days I had left. I never had any control. I do not know what is expected of a simple Chief Marine Engineer of 40 years standing have had thousands of men working for me
Monday, October 20, 2008 3:33 PM -
crdion@live.com, when you go to your Start Menu and then click on the entry for Windows Live OneCare, does the program open? If so, does it then cause the OneCare icon to appear in the system tray? What is your OneCare status when the program does open, if it does?
-steve
Monday, October 20, 2008 4:03 PMModerator -
You'll have to pay for the subscription.
Friday, October 31, 2008 7:15 PM