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Installing XP (1 license) on two computers..

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cavearea

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Are there any web sites to help facilitate the user to install one license of XP onto two different computers? (yes, yes, yes, I know that is forbidden by Microsoft)

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There are also good ways to get banned. Asking questions like this again is one of them.

AnandTech Moderator
 
There's really nothing to "help facilitate". Just install it on the second one the same way you installed it on the first one.
 
I think he's worried about Activating a copy of WinXP on different hardware. I don't know of any or encourage any ways to bypass WPA either. Buy another copy of it!
 
Notice: the following advice may be incredibly unhelpful, or you may thank me for the rest of your life. 🙂 Here goes:

Of course, you can always detach yourself from Microsoft's claws and use Linux for an unlimited period of time on an unlimited number of machines.
 
Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Notice: the following advice may be incredibly unhelpful, or you may thank me for the rest of your life. 🙂 Here goes:

Of course, you can always detach yourself from Microsoft's claws and use Linux for an unlimited period of time on an unlimited number of machines.
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You mean use a system that is consumer friendly?! :Q
 
If MS would offer cheap extra licenses ($20 or less) they might make a little more money while keep customers (happy). It might even encourage violators to come clean. But, as it stands, you pay about full price again for another license which is unacceptable to most consumers.
 
You're right, Jellybaby. If the license was $20.00 that would be acceptable and I would come clean and buy it. WinXP is a good software, no doubt. The current price (~$100) of the OEM disk is reasonable, too.

But I need to save money. I don't have plans to install XP on a friend or relative's computer. I don't think I would ever do that because of the strict activation procedure. But I do have a 2nd computer laying around in the same house, and I would like to install XP on that. But I am concerned about the activation procedure and how it will affect me overall. That is why I was wondering if there was "a way around it". I wonder what success/unsuccessful people have had by installing one XP license onto two different computers, ESPECIALLY without using any hacked software to get around the activation problem.


 
If that is what you really, really want to do..there are places online where you may find cd-key generators. These generators can make Corporate compatible keys which will bypass the activation all by themselves.. I do not know of the actual whereabouts of any of these things, so don't ask me🙂 But I do know that they exist.

You would have to do the research on your own if this is the path that you choose to take.

Hope this is what you were looking for.
 
Originally posted by: cavearea
You're right, Jellybaby. If the license was $20.00 that would be acceptable and I would come clean and buy it. WinXP is a good software, no doubt. The current price (~$100) of the OEM disk is reasonable, too.

But I need to save money. I don't have plans to install XP on a friend or relative's computer. I don't think I would ever do that because of the strict activation procedure. But I do have a 2nd computer laying around in the same house, and I would like to install XP on that. But I am concerned about the activation procedure and how it will affect me overall. That is why I was wondering if there was "a way around it". I wonder what success/unsuccessful people have had by installing one XP license onto two different computers, ESPECIALLY without using any hacked software to get around the activation problem.
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There are ways around it. This is not the proper place to be discussing illegal/immature/and quite possibly immoral activities. Its insulting to Anand and the other great administrators that provide the forum. I dont normally notify the mods about stupid crap like this, but I will make an exception.
 
<<You mean use a system that is consumer friendly?! >>

Might be "consumer" friendly, but damn well it isn't USER friendly.
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus01
<<You mean use a system that is consumer friendly?! >>

Might be "consumer" friendly, but damn well it isn't USER friendly.
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It's quite user-friendly (at least incredibly reliable -- you don't have something working one day and suddenly not working the next, leaving you to scatch your head in wonder) once you get to learn it.

"Unix IS user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are." - Unknown
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus01
<<You mean use a system that is consumer friendly?! >>

Might be "consumer" friendly, but damn well it isn't USER friendly.
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It is user friendly (and not just for the reasons given above). No one has to spend time trying to find a way to steal from anyone so they can install it on multiple machines. I can be as greedy and anti-corporation as I want, install it on as many machines as I can physically reach, and everyone is happier for it (unless I installed it on someone else's machine 😉). To me, the fact that I dont have to spend extra time trying to get around silly anti-piracy measures, that should not be necessary, makes my OS of choice "user friendly."
 
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