Re: Legal Question

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From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:22:55 +1000

In Australia they ALSO come with a restore partition. Dellboy is goodboy. 

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"Malke" <malke@nospoonnotreally.com> wrote in message news:Oh%23K%239FlEHA.2864@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Bruce Chambers wrote:
> 
> > Timm Napravnik wrote:
> >> I have a frind of mine who bought a Dell computer, he
> >> wants me to take off the Dell installed Windows XP Home
> >> and other software, and install just XP home and the
> >> drivers required to make it work.
> >>
> >> I can't seem to make the Dell restore disk do this, so I
> >> was wondering if there was anything from preventing me
> >> getting and OEM install CD and using the product key that
> >> is on the case of his computer?
> >>
> >> I already know that Microsoft wouldn't supply support, and
> >> probably Dell wouldn't either, I've explained this to him,
> >> and he's prepaired to live with that.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if my idea would work, and if Microsoft
> >> would have any "issues" with it?
> >>
> >> Timm Napravnik
> > 
> > 
> >     Do you actually have a Dell "Restore" CD?  The last time I (well,
> > my employer, actually...) purchased a Dell, it came with a real
> > installation CD.  The only disks that would pass for a Recovery CD
> > were the Driver and Application CDs.
> > 
> 
> You are quite right, Bruce. Dell's computers come with 1) the operating
> system disk, which is a full version of XP; 2) Dell's Restoration
> Utility (I think that's what they call it) which is all the drivers
> except the modem and which you install and then install the drivers
> from within it; 3) a cd for the modem drivers; 4) and cd's for any
> bundled software like Works, Word Perfect, DVD software, etc.
> 
> So clean installing Windows on a Dell computer isn't any different than
> doing it on a computer you build yourself.
> 
> Malke
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