Re: Installing XP Home on 2nd computer
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 21:11:43 -0500
gavin3 wrote:
> Let me get back to something I?ve seen as a 'root' of the question...
>
> Suppose I am a family man having two children. One I struggle to get
> money for to complete college, and another I struggle to keep out of
> trouble. Say I have rent payments we rarely meet, car insurance and
> maintained to pay for, and the only thing that keeps our family
> together is our good graces with the landlord.
> Empathize, just for a moment?
> In this hypothetical situation, I have managed to keep certain
> luxuries, and for the most part kept these luxuries legal. A good
> friend of mine recently gave me an old Toshiba Satellite of his, with
> the intent that I could give it to my daughter, freshman in college,
> so that she may have her own computer to use. Now, I have two desktop
> computers at home, which I have built and maintained over the last few
> years. They are nothing special, but they run, and work well for my
> son and wife. Both of these computers I have legal copies of windows
> XP Home Edition, again, I worked slow using an old version of win98
> until I was able to purchase XP (and be legal).
> Recently, something has happened however, a family matter of sorts,
> but my daughter was in the hospital for many days, and although the
> insurance did mostly cover that matter? it lead to something else. You
> see, I made a mistake, I did not teach my daughter about how insurance
> companies work, and she went to get medication (needed in response to
> the reason she was in the hospital) and did not first go through her
> primary care doctor. All this said, we have an unexpected expense
> upwards of 400$ paying for this medication she needs.
>
>
>
> ?.with this situation (and please continue to sympathize), suppose,
> hypothetically, I have found a way around verifying a copy of Windows
> XP. Although in the past I may have saved up and purchased a legal
> copy of XP, I am not able to do this at this point in time.
>
> The simple question at hand is; will I be able to use Microsoft?s
> ?Auto Update? to receive updates?
>
> Will my system not be recognized-- translating that I would simply do
> without that added luxury? Would it possibly crash both of my XP
> systems, (the one which was legally verified, and the other which was
> not)?
>
>
> It is rather depressing really, that certain things must cost so much,
> especially when we have no control over it. I ask everyone who
> responds to anything concerning licensing, simply be polite and
> understand that not everyone has the ability to go out and purchase
> another license. (.. I have noticed many rude and hotheaded responses
> to people on numerous threads.)
Empathy/Sympathy does not change Right/Wrong.
Of course Right/Wrong depends on point of view and interpretation.
To answer your long-winded question in a short manner..
There's ways around everything and many people (and businesses) employ these
ways everyday and for some time now..
(Be it software or other things.)
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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