Are XP home licenses language-bound?

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meulie

Hi all!

Just wondering about the following: I'll soon receive a laptop which
probably has XP Home Norwegian pre-installed.
Since I prefer English I was thinking about removing the Norwegian
install and installing XP Home English instead, using the same license
key.

* Will this work technically?
* Is it legal?


Regards,
Evert
 
Product Keys are not interchangeable when installing a different
language version of Windows XP. You'll need to purchase a
"Full Version" of Windows XP Home Edition and use the license
(Product Key) that comes with it.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| Hi all!
|
| Just wondering about the following: I'll soon receive a laptop which
| probably has XP Home Norwegian pre-installed.
| Since I prefer English I was thinking about removing the Norwegian
| install and installing XP Home English instead, using the same license
| key.
|
| * Will this work technically?
| * Is it legal?
|
|
| Regards,
| Evert
 
I am not sure if product keys are language-bound, but product keys for OEM
and retail versions are different sets. The laptop manufacturer must be
giving you an OEM version key, which won't work on the retail version.
 
But we also have HP OEM versions of XPH English laying around here.
What are my chances with those disks, in combination with the OEM XPH
Norwegian license key?


Regards,
Evert
 
I think they will work, but you will have to try to know for sure.
You may run into problems with differing versions of OEM and/or activation.
 
Slim and none.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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:

| But we also have HP OEM versions of XPH English laying around here.
| What are my chances with those disks, in combination with the OEM XPH
| Norwegian license key?
|
|
| Regards,
| Evert
 
Well, the laptop has arrived and I guess HP has 'answered' my question
with supplying both an English & a Norwegian OEM CD with the laptop...

So I'm concluding from that that a license is NOT language-bound...
8-)


Regards,
Evert
 
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