Am I a system builder for xp?

I know Microsoft changed the rules for Vista and above.

If I am a system builder, I could buy the windows oem sp3
installation disk. I consider anybody that open up an computer,
installs an hard drive, memory or pci card is a system builder
(Regardless of what Microsoft calls it).

So, could I legally install it on my system? or do I need a retail
copy?

Like I said in the other thread. I want to be able to pass the
activation and wga requirement.


Greg

Greg wrote:
> Am I a system builder for xp?
>
> I know Microsoft changed the rules for Vista and above.
>
> If I am a system builder, I could buy the windows oem sp3
> installation disk. I consider anybody that open up an computer,
> installs an hard drive, memory or pci card is a system builder
> (Regardless of what Microsoft calls it).
>
> So, could I legally install it on my system? or do I need a retail
> copy?
>
> Like I said in the other thread. I want to be able to pass the
> activation and wga requirement.
>
>
> Greg

Yes, you are the moment you buy it. You are your own OEM and it will
pass all the you-are-guilty-of-piracy-until-you-prove-differently over
and over again with flying colors. Like I said in the same thread, I
have three OEM licenses, two from Spain and one from the USA and they
have all passed WPA and WGA. I also have an OEM Microsoft Office 2003
and it also passed with no problems.

M

"Greg" wrote:

> Am I a system builder for xp?
>
> I know Microsoft changed the rules for Vista and above.
>
> If I am a system builder, I could buy the windows oem sp3
> installation disk. I consider anybody that open up an computer,
> installs an hard drive, memory or pci card is a system builder
> (Regardless of what Microsoft calls it).
>
> So, could I legally install it on my system? or do I need a retail
> copy?
>
> Like I said in the other thread. I want to be able to pass the
> activation and wga requirement.
>
>
> Greg
>

As I said in the other thread, if you built the system; you are the system
builder. If the machine was built by Dell, Sony, etc. you install using the
disk that you just bought, but use the Product Key from the COA that came
with the machine, rather than the one that came with the disk. See my post in
the other thread about how to beat WGA.

Greg wrote:
> Am I a system builder for xp?
>
> I know Microsoft changed the rules for Vista and above.
>
> If I am a system builder, I could buy the windows oem sp3
> installation disk. I consider anybody that open up an computer,
> installs an hard drive, memory or pci card is a system builder
> (Regardless of what Microsoft calls it).
>
> So, could I legally install it on my system? or do I need a retail
> copy?
>
> Like I said in the other thread. I want to be able to pass the
> activation and wga requirement.

FWIW...

I got an OEM XP Home SP2 a couple of years ago, installed it on my Win98
machine as a dual boot, activated it via internet no problem.

Last spring I built a new computer...new mobo, new cpu, new video card, new
HD, new case even; kept one old HD. Installed XP - now slipstreamed with
SP3 - and activated it over the internet NP. At one point I had some
problerms with it and needed to re-activate, did so via phone to the nice
mechanical lady, activated NP. In fact, it was probably activated 4-5 times
within a month or so; each time, NP.

That new computer has two installs of XP, I can boot to either; one I use
all the time; the other - on a separate drive is bare bones (no mobo
drivers, no internet connection, etc.) and is there "just in case".

My XP is legal and genuine but I never worry about WGA because I have
*never* used automatic updates (nor system restore AFATG).

Go buy the damn OEM and quit agonizing over it.

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