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Is this article up to date? Yes No. I guess that's a pretty stupid question. Anyway, thanks for your reply Newt. The problem you're gonna have is that when the second computer gets activated, the first computer will not be allowed to reactivate should anything go wrong. RayH ,. If I activated the second computer, would the disk then be matched with that computer, and not the original?
If that is the case, when I get ready to sell the first computer, I will re-install 98 SE on it, and continue to use XP on the second one. I'm just trying to keep from having to buy another disk. Thanks for your replay Ray.
Please let us know how this works out. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Carey Frisch MVP. In reply to ViqAhmed's post on July 24, Thank you in advance for your support and answer. You can only use the Windows 7 product key with either the bit or the bit installation DVD, not both.
The Windows 7 license agrrement permits just one 1 installation and activation on just one 1 computer. The only thing you might have some trouble with is if you use your COA number during activation one too many times.
Just call up Microsoft Tech support, read them the 30 or so numbers your computer spits out, and let them know your were reinstalling on the same machine, and you upgraded some components, preferably the motherboard.
Regular upgrades like drives or mem sticks usually dont trip the activation feature but a motherboard certainly will. Just be prepared to do some digging for drivers for your machine. Maybe after reinstallaton, it would be a great idea to make yourseld a rescue cd. The Key, or any of the valid one I own, does not work on any of the cracked i. So there must be a difference in the algorithm that checks the key for every System-Builder-Company. If MS would be really determined to keep me from running a legal key on a different WinXP-CD, they might have hidden several checking functions in the binaries of the Installation Program, and only their order of running through the key might be changed without changing file sizes at all.
This would allow for identification of a key contingent of the OEM-Seller. I have someone with tons of spyware and virussen. She is blind and I cannot get back to put it because it wants a password even though it did not require it before when I worked on her computer.
She had Windows on it. What I need to know is that I have a friend that went to school for 5 years for computing and does computing for a large company but has never use an OEM disk. The disks did not come from any big company. The XP Home disk is a holographic disk. I cannot burn a copy of either disk but would I be able to install one of them again on a different computer? Your help would be appreciated. I work for a computer repair center and I am trying to find the legal issues with us keeping copies of windows xp oem copies and reinstalling it on clients computers and using their product keys from the bottom of their laptop.
Is this legal? Does anyone know where I can find a formal document that is from Microsoft? Naturally, since PC Bioses are almost always shadowed in RAM nowadays, that means one could install a driver to trap this call to the BIOS and return the required value but that would be totally illegal and I would never condone anything like that….
This would be why, I am guessing, the product keys could be slightly different, but the installation files themselves should be the same specific drivers for hardware may have been inserted, but XP uses generic drivers well enough for most items, and you can update them later — the irritating one is Wireless and LAN can sometimes not be recognised if built into the motherboard, without the chipset drivers, leaving you unable to connect to the net and find drivers yourself — I have one XP Professional CD which is use to rebuild any machine I need to….
You can use a OEM disk on any computer but will have to change the COA once installed; It should be a sticker on the side of your computer. You can change the COA if you go to activate the computer over the phone it will have a button on the botton of the screen were you can change it. Hey, i have bought a copy windows xp and installed it but later decided to format the computer because it had abit of problems. Can i reinstall windows again using the same CD and CD key etc.?
Can I use any windows xp CD disc to reload windows xp if I have the key number of that computer on the bottom sticker? I often image a pile of hardrives using the restore disk.
I make sure to never exceed the number of site licenses that I legally own. Hi,have just bought new computer with Vista-it sucks big time-my old pc was XP-I have the original cd and licence key number,can I download thatXP to this new pc- Kelly. Only when the Windows asks you to activate it you have to generate new code by entering again the product key of the OEM installation disk.
With the new code you call Microsoft on the telephones listed and they will provide you with activation code. I have a Dell desktop Dimension and also a Dell laptop Inspiron Could I re-install the system in a Toshiba laptop? I read some comments about reinstalling different products, but the answers left me confused. Please answer me in plain english. How do I take my recovery CD and install Windows? Sony wasnt kind enough to split the OS with the bundled crap.
I do have the driver recovery CD. Am I to install the Sony drivers on my home made computer then try and install the the recover? If you use for example a dell reinstall for windows xp and you use it for a hp computer. It will work but will tell you that you have to activate windows within 30 days. Also a lil pop will appear in your task manager from time to time reminding you to do so.
Meanwhile, I bought an old Dell Dimension without a hard drive, and installed the hard drive from my other computer into it. If nbot, is there a way to downgrade from the nonvalidatable XP pro to the valid XP Home without having to reinstall everything on my computer?
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