1 Copy for 2 Computers

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Theresa Leone

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"
 
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.
 
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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having both at once. -- RAH
 
Greetings --

Do you even know what a Client Access License is?

Bruce Chambers

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Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH
 
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.
 
Bruce said:
Greetings --

Do you even know what a Client Access License is?

Bruce Chambers
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Nope - but, as they say, the clue's in the title, folks! ;o)
 
EDGAR said:
run the uninterupted setup and no load limitation
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I've read that 'sentence' three times and it still makes no sense - what in
Hades name are you blithering on about?!
 
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