Genuine advantage validation

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I am building a PC for a wedding present. I have ordered a copy of XP from a
reputable dealer but it has not yet arrived and time is running out. If I
install the machine with my copy of XP could I validate/activate it with the
new licence? Both copies are XP Home SP2 OEM. I know that having a working
pc is not going to be at the top of their priorities on their wedding night
but it would be nice to give them something that worked.
 
Not unless one of your OEM licenses was never installed or activated
on another computer. Once you activate an OEM license, that license
is forever bound to the first computer it was activated on.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/default.mspx

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| I am building a PC for a wedding present. I have ordered a copy of XP from a
| reputable dealer but it has not yet arrived and time is running out. If I
| install the machine with my copy of XP could I validate/activate it with the
| new licence? Both copies are XP Home SP2 OEM. I know that having a working
| pc is not going to be at the top of their priorities on their wedding night
| but it would be nice to give them something that worked.
 
just take a polaroid pic of the computer and give them the camera to
play around with on their honeymoon.

i'm sure the mrs. would appreciate not having to drag him away from
world of warcraft the first few blissful nights of their marriage.
 
Not unless one of your OEM licenses was never installed or activated
on another computer. Once you activate an OEM license, that license
is forever bound to the first computer it was activated on.
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Isn't it just the cd key that is bound to that machine and not the physical
copy of XP? With the retail vrsion I know you can install one copy on two
machines so long as you use different keys on each. Why not OEM? Dell
doens't install a different physical copy on each machine they just use
different keys, surely.
 
wh0cares wrote:
|| I am building a PC for a wedding present. I have ordered a copy of
|| XP from a reputable dealer but it has not yet arrived and time is
|| running out. If I install the machine with my copy of XP could I
|| validate/activate it with the new licence? Both copies are XP Home
|| SP2 OEM. I know that having a working pc is not going to be at the
|| top of their priorities on their wedding night but it would be nice
|| to give them something that worked.

It could be done, but it wouldn't be worth the hassle.
 
Pez D Spencer said:
just take a polaroid pic of the computer and give them the camera to
play around with on their honeymoon.

i'm sure the mrs. would appreciate not having to drag him away from
world of warcraft the first few blissful nights of their marriage.
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Lol

Nick
 
wh0cares said:
I am building a PC for a wedding present. I have ordered a copy of XP
from a reputable dealer but it has not yet arrived and time is
running out. If I install the machine with my copy of XP could I
validate/activate it with the new licence? Both copies are XP Home
SP2 OEM. I know that having a working pc is not going to be at the
top of their priorities on their wedding night but it would be nice
to give them something that worked.
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You want to install with your CD and not activate, but then activate with
their code when the CD arrives?

As long as both CDs are the same--generic OEM versions--yes that would work.
There's no difference in the CD itself. The license applies to the code, not
the CD.
 
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