Dell Windows XP Home

[CRXican]

I purchased a copy of Windows XP Home from a forum member in the for sale/trade forum. The thing is it came from a Dell PC. He claimed to be installing Windows 2000 and did not need the XP discs so I bought one. He pretty much assured me they would work as he had sold them before.

I did a quick search in this forum and a couple old threads seem to say that I will not be able to use this copy to build a new PC, one reason being a non-Dell bios lock of some sort. I need to know for sure because if this disc is useless to me then I will definietly be asking for a refund.

 

[mitchafi]

I installed the copy of windows XP Home that came with my Dell Dimension 8250 on the new machine I built and it worked flawlessly, except for the fact that it comes with Dell Solution Center preinstalled and I couldn't figure out how to remove it completely.

 

[CRXican]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
I installed the copy of windows XP Home that came with my Dell Dimension 8250 on the new machine I built and it worked flawlessly, except for the fact that it comes with Dell Solution Center preinstalled and I couldn't figure out how to remove it completely.

Thanks a lot for the reply. I hate that solution center thing but as long as everything else works I'll be happy.

 

[CRXican]

anyone else have any input?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

i got an unopened dell oem copy of windows with the serial sticker on it (i really don't know how he got it) from a friend, and the solution center thing bugged me too, but digging around after searching for oeminfo.inf and oemlogo.bmp using Find, i deleted all traces of these files, and one file was in a location were all the dell icons and html file was, got rid of it, if you want, i could install it on a second hd and figure out what it was i did

 

[CRXican]

Originally posted by: sheik124
i got an unopened dell oem copy of windows with the serial sticker on it (i really don't know how he got it) from a friend, and the solution center thing bugged me too, but digging around after searching for oeminfo.inf and oemlogo.bmp using Find, i deleted all traces of these files, and one file was in a location were all the dell icons and html file was, got rid of it, if you want, i could install it on a second hd and figure out what it was i did

I'm good at hunting that sutff down so I'll give it a try first but thanks for your help. I might be shooting you a PM this weekend.