Re: Win XP - Product Code

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From: Alias (maskedandanonymous_at_aka.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:30:12 +0200

"*Vanguard*" <do-not-email@reply-to-group> wrote
> "Mantis" <psycho_mantis_fxh@hotmail.com>
> wrote
> > Okay, since I made the stupid mistake of installing Win
> > XP Pro over my Home Edition, and I don't have an XP Home
> > disc, where can get another product key so I can use Win
> > XP on the other computer now with getting that stupid 30
> > activation nonsense?
>
> Was Windows XP Pro an *upgrade* version? If so, that's all you get is
> the ONE license to use Windows. You UPGRADED which means you don't get
> to use any of the prior version upon which your upgrade is based. The
> upgrade traces back through prior upgrades until eventually you reach
> the full version upon which the entire upgrade path is based.
>
> If Windows XP Pro was a FULL version then you'll have to figure out just
> how the legal copy of Windows XP Home was provided. If you lost the CD,
> call Microsoft to find out what they will charge to send you a
> replacement CD but be prepared to prove your legal ownership of a
> license to it.
>
> Was it an pre-installed OEM version? If so then it is tied to that one
> computer and cannot be used on any other computer. If it is an OEM
> version but was not pre-installed and instead had to be purchased with
> qualifying non-peripheral hardware then that OEM license remains tied to
> that hardware (so buy it with a cable since that won't easily break).

Um, OEMs can be bought without any hardware tied to it, as per Microsoft's
activation department when I called them on the phone. They changed that
three months ago. I have one installed on this machine.

Alias

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