Windows XP-Pro installation question.

[Atty]

I'm about to buy my new PC (C2D Set up) and just have one questions...

I recently bought a copy of Xp-Pro OEM for my Dell Optiplex (I needed it to work and it was my only way to get it working) and installed it.

If I install that copy of Xp-Pro on my new PC and register it will it be considered void (were it won't let you download updates)?

I'll be trashing this Dell Optiplex so the copy of windows will only be on 1 working machine.

 

[Lord Evermore]

It'll work just fine. You may have to call Microsoft when you activate it, but there's a good chance you won't even need to do that. You'll need to activate it, but you shouldn't bother with registering it (two different things).

However there may be an issue with the actual license terms. The OEM license says that you may only install it on one machine, and you can't migrate the license to any other machine. Microsoft hasn't sued anyone yet over violating that, so it hasn't been challenged in court, but most people who buy OEM Windows think it's absurd and they do it anway. Even though you bought it to install on a machine that probably already had its own license to some other version of XP, the fact that you installed it once already, according to Microsoft, means it's tied to that specific computer.

There are several other threads especially in the Operating Systems forum which address this.

 

[thescreensavers]

bahh jsut install it and if it says any thing jsut aftivate it over the phone and when on the phone the computer asks if oyu want to activate just hit 0 then tell the guy all the info he needs and when he asks is it being used on a nother computer say no. and thats about it. your fine.