EULA - legal question

[J]

I have an opened box copy of WIN XP PRO that I have
registered twice and now wish to sell.

1-Can I sell it legally?
2-How many more activations does it have left for the next
purchaser?

-Joshua

 

[purplehaz]

There is no activation "limit". XP can be installed as many times as you
want on one computer at a time.
If this is a retail version then yes you can sell it, but you first have to
remove it from your computer(format), and then you have to give all the
documentation, cd, cases, product key stickers, etc.... everything to do
with xp to the buyer.
If this is an oem version you cannot sell it.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

1. If it's a "retail version", yes. If it's an "OEM version", no.
2. Assuming you have the "retail version", you must remove
Windows XP Pro from any computer you installed it on
(by reformatting the drive), then you must provide the future
owner with the original Windows XP Pro CD, Product Key,
and all original documentation that came with it. Also, you
must give the new owner a brief written statement attesting to
having removed this copy of Windows XP Pro from any computer
you installed it on.

The new owner may have to "activate by telephone" if the "activate
via the internet" method does not work.

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

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I have an opened box copy of WIN XP PRO that I have
| registered twice and now wish to sell.
|
| 1-Can I sell it legally?
| 2-How many more activations does it have left for the next
| purchaser?
|
| -Joshua

 

[Guest]

Thanks --

- I thought I read that on a website that it times out at
8 or 11 -- this isn't true?

-Joshua

 

[purplehaz]

Nope, not true. You can format and install xp a million, billion times if
you wanted. Just as long as it only on one computer at a time. You may have
to call ms to get activated, but that's the worst case.

 

[JAX]

You can install on the same machine as many times as you wish.

JAX

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No, it is not true at all.

Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Alex Nichol]

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

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Thanks --
|
| - I thought I read that on a website that it times out at
| 8 or 11 -- this isn't true?
|
| -Joshua

 

[Parish]

| Thanks --
|
| - I thought I read that on a website that it times out at
| 8 or 11 -- this isn't true?

No, it is not true at all.

He is probably thinking about the "points" for hardware components used
in WPA where you can change X out Y "points" before re-activation is needed.

Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Alex Nichol]

 

[kurttrail]

1. If it's a "retail version", yes. If it's an "OEM version", no.

"I have an opened box copy of WIN XP PRO that I have registered twice and
now wish to sell."

OEM versions don't come boxed.

--
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!"

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have an opened box copy of WIN XP PRO that I have
registered twice and now wish to sell.

1-Can I sell it legally?
2-How many more activations does it have left for the next
purchaser?

If it is a retail copy and you have removed it from any machine it is at
present installed on, then you may sell it; handing over all materials
including CD; certificate of authenticity and Product Key. The
purchasers may then install - at activation he may have to do it by
phoning in - and subsequently transfer it to other hardware
indefinitely. The central point is that it may only be on *one* machine
at any time.

 

[Alex Nichol]

- I thought I read that on a website that it times out at
8 or 11 -- this isn't true?

No. Try reading www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm instead

 

[Bill Clay]

What you heard was probably about Office XP, which does (or at least,
did) have a limit on the number of activations.

-- Bill