Activation Key complication

[Guest]

I just got my new computer and wanted to know if I could use my old xp home activation key for it since my old computer was upgraded to xp Pro. Or is it that you can only activate once?

 

[Norm]

If it's been more than 120 days since XP Home was activated then Microsoft
won't care.

I just got my new computer and wanted to know if I could use my old xp

home activation key for it since my old computer was upgraded to xp Pro. Or
is it that you can only activate once?

 

[Ken Blake]

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I just got my new computer and wanted to know if I could use my old
xp home activation key for it since my old computer was upgraded to
xp Pro. Or is it that you can only activate once?

No, there is no limit of activating once. You can do so as often
as you want.

However, whether you can use your old product key depends on two
things:

1. If you used your XP Home as a qualifying product with an
upgrade version of XP Professional, that ties the two licenses
together and Home can not be used on another computer.

2. If your XP Home is an OEM version (for example, it came with
the computer), then its license ties it permanently to the first
computer it was installed on.

If neither of the above is true, then yes, you can use it on your
new computer.

 

[Gary Tait]

If it's been more than 120 days since XP Home was activated then Microsoft
won't care.

They will, but they will probably not do anything about it, if you are
in violation of the EULA for the OS(es) on the other PC.