How Do You Tell If You Have Illegal Key?

[jmn]

I bought used Emachine which is supposed to come with Win ME but has OEM XP
Home. It came with neither COA or CD's. It will, however, perform Windows
updates. I suspect this is a corporate version. How can I tell?

 

[David]

Open "My Computer"
click on "Help"
select "Is this copy of Windows legal"

 

[jmn]

Well, I have no COA to compare. What I am looking for is a utility I can
run myself. That way, if it is a legal corporate version but still not
appropriate, I'll know what I have.

 

[Donald McDaniel]

Well, I have no COA to compare. What I am looking for is a utility I
can run myself. That way, if it is a legal corporate version but
still not appropriate, I'll know what I have.

The so-called "Corporate" version is not an OEM version. It is the Volume
license media with either a stolen Volume License CD key, or a CD key
produced by a key-gen program.

The chances are almost 100% that unless you have a COA (provided with EVERY
legal copy of Windows XP), you have a pirated version of some sort. In
fact, unless you DO have a COA, you have an illegal copy of Windows XP.

There are no utilities to check the legality of a copy of Windows XP. The
COA is the proof of authenticity, and therefore, legality. No authentic
COA, no legal copy.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If you do not have the CoA and the installation media, then you do
not have a legitimate license. (It cannot be a "corporate version"
because there is no such thing.)

Bruce Chambers
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