Re: Repair does not work when replacing MotherBoard

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:42:00 -0700 (PDT), ShadowTek
<psistormyamato@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 7, 11:30 am, Bruce Chambers <bchamb...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do you mean OEM license? "Software bundle" is meaningless in this context.

Well, if you have one, then you are also going to have to install all
"their crap" along with Windows. I use the term "software bundle" to
refer to the fact that you aren't just installing Windows when you do
a so-called clean install of the OEM's OS.



That's not necessarily true. It depends, first of all, on whether you
have a generic OEM copy or a specific OEM's CD. A generic OEM copy has
identical software to what's on a retail version--no more and no less.
With specific OEM CDs, these generally *do* come with additional
software, some of which (but not necessarily all) *may* be crap. Even
there, though, I'm not sure that *every* OEM bundles others products
with their CDs.


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