Re: Windows XP Product Key specific to CD?

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Hey Donny,
They changed the rules on us in Feb 2005--you can no longer use a generic
disk on a branded system and have it activate automatically.

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"Donny Broome" <donny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, as long as the media is the exact same version of XP. (OEM, Retail,
Volume Licensing, etc.)


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Donny Broome
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"oneils" <oneils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello everyone, I'm helping a friend clean up his daughters' computers.
I've
done windows reinstall on one computer, which went fine. However, he's
lost
the install cd for the other computer. The second computer does have an
oem
sticker on it with an activation/product key (sorry can't remember what
its
called).

Can I use the physical install cd from the first computer on the second
computer and activate it with that second computer's windows key? I hope
I'm
making sense.

I'm wondering if I will just be told, during installation, that the key
is
invalid.




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