Re: How can I tell if XP is legal?

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Jack D1ldo wrote:

If you are getting all the updates then you are legal otherwise tough luck. If it is working then why fix it! Continue doing what you are doing and you should be ok unless, of course, you want to spend money to get another XP package. If the system is branded like Dell, HP etc then it must be legal. They never ship anything without installing a legal OS and some say (I don't believe this though) OEM branded OS cannot be installed on any other systems.

hth

The whole idea of this exercise is to determine IF it's broke.

You have the right idea, if it ain't broke..., but you're not
applying it. NEVER, EVER let ANY program automatically update.
And NEVER, EVER manually update any program unless it's absolutely required
to do something that you can't do without and have no alternatives.

I'm convinced there's more crapware, spyware, adware, DMCAware,
homelandsecurityware
in updates than any actual updated functionality...but that's just me.

Oh, forgot about additional bugs. Surely you've had a system go south
and had no idea which change broke it...cause you have no idea what changed.



mike wrote:

I bought a used computer with XP.
It's activated.
I want to make DARN SURE it's gonna continue to work
before I spend a week installing and configuring stuff.

I went to the MS site and got nowhere.
I ran genuinecheck.
It gave me a number and said, "Paste this into step 2"
but there was no step 2.
Tried downloading some stuff. Worked without incident,
but not sure I tried the "restricted stuff".

So, how can I verify that my install is legal and will
continue to work?

.

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