1 Copy for 2 Computers

I bought a copy of the Windows XP Home Edition upgrade for
my personal use. After loading it onto my desktop, when
trying to load onto my laptop, it tells me that I cannot
because I already loaded it onto my desktop. Please help
me. This is incredibly unfair. I need a solution without
dropping another $100!!!!!

Theresa;
You have several options:
1. Uninstall from laptop:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303661
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314052
2. Since you feel this is unfair, then return to seller or Microsoft
after uninstalling from both computers:
http://www.microsoft.com/info/nareturns.htm
3. Buy another license.

One license, one computer, the way it has always been with all
consumer Microsoft OSs.
Did you read the EULA you agreed to, it is stated that it is only for
one computer
Start/Run
Type "winver" ENTER
Click "End-User License Agreement"

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"Theresa Leone" <alouetteme@aol.com> wrote in message
news:157b01c3731a$64f1ad90$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I bought a copy of the Windows XP Home Edition upgrade for
> my personal use. After loading it onto my desktop, when
> trying to load onto my laptop, it tells me that I cannot
> because I already loaded it onto my desktop. Please help
> me. This is incredibly unfair. I need a solution without
> dropping another $100!!!!!

Switch to Linux.

- Pat

"Theresa Leone" <alouetteme@aol.com> writes:

> I need a solution without dropping another $100!!!!!

Ya, just watch out for SCO
"Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:s5gy8x4dzni.fsf@egghead.curl.com...
> Switch to Linux.
>
> - Pat
>
> "Theresa Leone" <alouetteme@aol.com> writes:
>
> > I need a solution without dropping another $100!!!!!

What recreational drugs have we been doing today? Windows Server 2003 with
25 cals, means one server install/license of Windows Server 2003 that allows
up to 25 connections.
The same for your others statements about 10 and 5 cals also.
<VideoPartyGuy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1db901c3733a$f17993c0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Buy a MacIntosh G-5 or get a cal from Microsoft for more
> than one computer, like Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
> Edition comes with 25 cal, with this package you can
> install Windows Server 2003 on 25 computers. The package
> cost around $3,999.00. The Standard Edition for 10
> computers is $1,199.00, and the Standard Edition for 5
> computer for Windows Server 2003 is $999.00.
>
> What is the cost of an XP upgrade? Would be cheaper to
> buy two copies of XP upgrades. Or, you can voice your
> oponion to Microsoft. If you are a student or have a
> student in your family, most University Bookstores have a
> discounted Educational Student Price.
>
> If you download a crack code from a peer to peer site, you
> will be in vilation of the EULA with Microsoft and will be
> using priated software which is illegal. You only legal
> alternative is to purchase another upgrade of Windows XP
> for your lap top or switch to Linux.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I bought a copy of the Windows XP Home Edition upgrade
> for
> >my personal use. After loading it onto my desktop, when
> >trying to load onto my laptop, it tells me that I cannot
> >because I already loaded it onto my desktop. Please help
> >me. This is incredibly unfair. I need a solution
> without
> >dropping another $100!!!!!
> >.
> >

Greetings --

How is not being allowed to steal "terribly unfair?"

What planet are you from? Does your local grocer let you walk out
of the market with three loaves of bread when you've paid for only
one? Can you drive two cars home if you've paid for only one? Does
your local clothier allow you to leave the shop with two shirts if
you've purchased only one? Have you noticed a trend, yet? Where in
the world did you ever get the absurd idea that software manufacturers
would sell their product licenses any differently?

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and copyright
laws, if not technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each
computer on which it is installed. The only way in which WinXP
licensing differs from that of earlier versions of Windows is that
Microsoft has finally added a copy protection and anti-theft
mechanism, Product Activation, to prevent (or at least make more
difficult) the sort of multiple installations you're asking about.

No one "expects" you to buy WinXP for every machine in the house.
If you want every computer to run the same operating system, that's
_your_ choice, and you need to pay the cost of making that choice.


Bruce Chambers

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"Theresa Leone" <alouetteme@aol.com> wrote in message
news:157b01c3731a$64f1ad90$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I bought a copy of the Windows XP Home Edition upgrade for
> my personal use. After loading it onto my desktop, when
> trying to load onto my laptop, it tells me that I cannot
> because I already loaded it onto my desktop. Please help
> me. This is incredibly unfair. I need a solution without
> dropping another $100!!!!!

Greetings --

Do you even know what a Client Access License is?

Bruce Chambers

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<VideoPartyGuy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1db901c3733a$f17993c0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Buy a MacIntosh G-5 or get a cal from Microsoft for more
> than one computer, like Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
> Edition comes with 25 cal, with this package you can
> install Windows Server 2003 on 25 computers. The package
> cost around $3,999.00. The Standard Edition for 10
> computers is $1,199.00, and the Standard Edition for 5
> computer for Windows Server 2003 is $999.00.
>
> What is the cost of an XP upgrade? Would be cheaper to
> buy two copies of XP upgrades. Or, you can voice your
> oponion to Microsoft. If you are a student or have a
> student in your family, most University Bookstores have a
> discounted Educational Student Price.
>
> If you download a crack code from a peer to peer site, you
> will be in vilation of the EULA with Microsoft and will be
> using priated software which is illegal. You only legal
> alternative is to purchase another upgrade of Windows XP
> for your lap top or switch to Linux.
>

Although it is expensive to have to have 2 licenses that
is just the way it is. I'm sure you wouldn't expect to
buy 2 cars and only 1 engine. I'm sure you wouldn't think
its fair with only 1 engine now would you. This is no
different, Windows IS the engine to a PC and you have to
expect to buy it the same way you would expect to have to
pay for 2 engines for 2 cars.

If you can't afford 2 copies of Windows then you really
shouldn't be able to afford 2 PC's. Based on what you are
saying I'm guessing that you don't own a single copy of
Antivirus software or if you do then the virus definitions
have probably expired a long time ago.


>-----Original Message-----
>Too Bad, buy another copy. and it's not unfair. You
dint write the
>software. You dont do any development for the software.
Who are you to say
>it's unfair? It's been the same why for every version of
Windows to date.
>
>"Theresa Leone" <alouetteme@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:157b01c3731a$64f1ad90$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> I bought a copy of the Windows XP Home Edition upgrade
for
>> my personal use. After loading it onto my desktop, when
>> trying to load onto my laptop, it tells me that I cannot
>> because I already loaded it onto my desktop. Please
help
>> me. This is incredibly unfair. I need a solution
without
>> dropping another $100!!!!!
>
>
>.
>

Bruce Chambers wrote:
> Greetings --
>
> Do you even know what a Client Access License is?
>
> Bruce Chambers


Nope - but, as they say, the clue's in the title, folks! ;o)

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"Theresa Leone" <alouetteme@aol.com> wrote in message
news:157b01c3731a$64f1ad90$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I bought a copy of the Windows XP Home Edition upgrade for
> my personal use. After loading it onto my desktop, when
> trying to load onto my laptop, it tells me that I cannot
> because I already loaded it onto my desktop. Please help
> me. This is incredibly unfair. I need a solution without
> dropping another $100!!!!!