Re: XP Pro w/ Sp2 OEM

To be honest,

I bought this PC back in 02. It is an HP 360n Pavilion. I don't know what OS came on it. I think I have the recovery disk. over the years, it got viruses and spyware. A friend (super trained programmer), over a vacation, copied my files and reformatted the machine and reloaded. I don't know if he loaded XP pro from my recovery disk or if he imaged my PC with his XP pro.

Long story short, I became an additional duty Client Support Administrator at work and applied similar settings to the security policy and other settings (I.e. login message after Ctl/Alt/Del). Once I got things showing up like I liked, I started looking at the rights and took rights away from everyone except administrator, system, and my personal user. I think some of the goofy looking users (long alpha numeric w/ @...) I took out were important. Also, I took out power users and backup users groups. Now when I start the computer and log in, it takes a minute or two to register and show the desktop. The start/task bar never shows. Most programs dont run. Drag and drop dont work and right click and send to dont work from transfering files to an external disk to get them off the computer to my new computer. The place to go and start running the background programs won't let me do anything. The security policy won't let me, signed in as administrator, grant permissions back to everyone and so on and so on.

Yea, dumb. I know but I learned what was what.

"thecreator" <thecreator@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:qvqdnUrVJfDzoUnanZ2dnUVZ_oimnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi DM,

Do you since have your Windows XP Pro Disk? What is your Manufacturer, Brand and Model Number of your Computer?


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thecreator

"DM" <themusgravefamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eN713ahgIHA.5900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I want to purchase XP Pro w/ SP2 from someone on eBay. They claim it is "Brand New! Genuine from Microsoft! w/ TECH Support"

The only thing is it is an OEM version.

I've never bought an operating system by it's self without being preinstalled before. Will this OEM version work for me? What are the limitations on OEM versions?

I am replacing my current XP Pro operating system with a new one because I locked the system up by playing with the security policy. Yea, dumb but I was learning and got carried away.

Thanks in advance!



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