Installing over OEM version

[Richard]

Is it possible to install a legit copy of XP Home Edition
over an OEM copy without having to go back to 98?

History:

I have a OEM upgrade CD for a laptop I purchased 2 years
ago. I recently decided to see how XP would perform on an
older 600 Mz Pavilion so I upgraded using this OEM CD. I
spent the weekend upgrading drivers, etc. and I have been
pleased with the performance and XP features and would
like to keep XP. Unfortunately I cannot activate XP since
this is a OEM version that is already activated on my
laptop. So I want to purchase an upgrade CD but do not
want to undo all that I have done. Can the upgrade CD
install over the OEM version?

 

[Guest]

It will activate, did you try ?? do it by phone.

Use this then activate with either key.

http://ryan.ript.net/xppid/

 

[Bastet]

It will activate, did you try ?? do it by phone.

Use this then activate with either key.

http://ryan.ript.net/xppid/

Advocating the piracy of a MS software in a MS hosted group is very likely
to get you banned from posting here. Installing an OEM licence on a system
other than the one it was supplied with is a violation of the EULA.

 

[Gary Tait]

It will activate, did you try ?? do it by phone.

Use this then activate with either key.

http://ryan.ript.net/xppid/

But that OS license belongs to the laptop, in that it is an OEM which
cannot be transferred, and a license for one computer.

 

[Gary Tait]

Is it possible to install a legit copy of XP Home Edition
over an OEM copy without having to go back to 98?

History:

I have a OEM upgrade CD for a laptop I purchased 2 years
ago. I recently decided to see how XP would perform on an
older 600 Mz Pavilion so I upgraded using this OEM CD. I
spent the weekend upgrading drivers, etc. and I have been
pleased with the performance and XP features and would
like to keep XP. Unfortunately I cannot activate XP since
this is a OEM version that is already activated on my
laptop. So I want to purchase an upgrade CD but do not
want to undo all that I have done. Can the upgrade CD
install over the OEM version?

Do a repair install.

 

[kurttrail]

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

Advocating the piracy of a MS software in a MS hosted group is very
likely to get you banned from posting here.

Not one person has ever been charged for piracy or theft or any other
criminal offense for installing a copy of software, that was legally
purchased, on more than one computer.

I suppose you buy the BS of the "Partnership for a Drug-Free America"
that smoking marijuana supposts terrorism too.

Installing an OEM licence
on a system other than the one it was supplied with is a violation of
the EULA.

Yes, it is a violation of the EULA according to MS, and that's contract
law, and there are no US laws that make breaking a contractual term
illegal, in and of itself. MS has every right to sue if they want to
enforce their contract terms, but since MS has abandoned trying to
legally enforce their One Computer terms for over a decade now, because
they are afraid they'd lose in court, that I would hold my breath
waiting for MS to grow some balls, if I were you.

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[kurttrail]

But that OS license belongs to the laptop, in that it is an OEM which
cannot be transferred, and a license for one computer.

According to MS's & your legally unproven supposition. When MS gets the
balls to actually prove their EULA claims are actually legally
enforceable on private individuals, let us all know, until then MS's
license claims are nothing more than FUD.

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Kurt
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Gary Tait]

According to MS's & your legally unproven supposition. When MS gets the
balls to actually prove their EULA claims are actually legally
enforceable on private individuals, let us all know, until then MS's
license claims are nothing more than FUD.

It doesn't have to be proven. The facts in the EULA are enough. If you
feel you need to validate, or invaludate clauses in the EULA, take it
up with MS.

 

[kurttrail]

By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

It doesn't have to be proven. The facts in the EULA are enough.

The fact that MS wrote it, doesn't mean that the EULA, in fact, legally
enforceable, any more than the fact of your acceptance of my reply EULA
proves that it is legally enforceable on you. But I thank you for your
public acknowledgement of your accepting me as your personal Saviour.

If you
feel you need to validate, or invaludate clauses in the EULA, take it
up with MS.

Don't have to legally. All any individual has to do is break the term,
if the other party, MS in this case, doesn't like it, then all MS has to
do is prove it in a court of law by suing and getting a judge to buy
their BS. If MS doesn't sue the individual that breaks their EULA term,
as they haven't for over a decade since they added their One Computer
term to Windows, then MS really has no right to bitch about it, since
they have refuse to try to enforce their EULA on private individuals by
legal means, in a real court of law, but MS rather prove that their EULA
terms in the court of FUD, than risk losing in a real court of law.

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Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Richard]

-----Original Message-----

Do a repair install.
.

It worked. I am now the proud (??) owner of a HP Pavilion
6730 running XP. Thanks.