Install XP Pro on second home pc

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how do I load my XP Pro on a second pc that I have in my house? Have put it
on but getting issue with activation. I heard there was a method but I cant
find it anywhere.
Thanks
Doug
 
: how do I load my XP Pro on a second pc that I have in my house?
Have put it
: on but getting issue with activation. I heard there was a method
but I cant
: find it anywhere.
: Thanks
: Doug


The method is to purchase another license (activation key). Why
would you post in a microsoft newsgroup asking how to pirate their
software?

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doug s said:
this is not a pirate !! i own xp pro. i just want it on a second pc since 98
is old.
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Here's the deal: Microsoft doesn't sell WinXP. It licenses it.
You have bought a license to use WinXP on one machine. If
you have it installed on 2 machines simultaneously, Microsoft
claims that you're in violation of their EULA. Microsoft requires
that to install your copy of WinXP on another machine, you
must first uninstall it from the 1st machine. And... Microsoft has
no way to know if you really uninstalled the 1st WinXP, they just
take your word for it. But if the 2nd activation occurs within 4
months of the 1st activation, you have to call Microsoft and tell
the rep your sad tail about the dog eating your laptop, and then
he/she will enable the 2nd activation. Otherwise, if it has been
more than 4 months since the last activation, it's handled by the
automated system. In my personal experience, even the less-than-
4-month activation is handled automatically.

*TimDaniels*
 
: this is not a pirate !! i own xp pro. i just want it on a second
pc since 98
: is old.
:
: "Admiral Q" wrote:
:
: > : > : how do I load my XP Pro on a second pc that I have in my
house?
: > Have put it
: > : on but getting issue with activation. I heard there was a
method
: > but I cant
: > : find it anywhere.
: > : Thanks
: > : Doug
: >
: >
: > The method is to purchase another license (activation key). Why
: > would you post in a microsoft newsgroup asking how to pirate
their
: > software?
: >
: > --
: >
: >
: > Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service!
: >
: > Google is your friend!
: > http://www.google.com
: >
: >
: >

Then you need another license or you can take some of the other
methods, such as waiting 120 days to activate on the second
computer. Each PC needs a license, unlease you purchase a Volume
License, which I believe you can purchase 5 or more licenses.

--


Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service!

Google is your friend!
http://www.google.com
 
Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically,
=?Utf-8?B?ZG91ZyBz?= laid this on an unsuspecting readership ...
this is not a pirate !! i own xp pro. i just want it on a
second pc since 98 is old.
Click to expand...

The M$ license is quite specific, one and only one PC at a time. If
you have a retail license, it is tied to the 1st PC, you can't
legally install it on a 2nd one, but even if it were "legal" Bill
the Gates won't activate it for you. I don't like giving that guy
my money either, but the alternatives are pretty limited.

--
ATM, aka JerryR

"Gort. Klaatu. Barada. Nikto." - Klaatu to Mrs. Benson to stop
robot Gort destroying the Earth, from "The Day The Earth Stood
Still"
 
Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically, Timothy
Daniels laid this on an unsuspecting readership ...
Here's the deal: Microsoft doesn't sell WinXP. It
licenses it.
You have bought a license to use WinXP on one machine. If
you have it installed on 2 machines simultaneously, Microsoft
claims that you're in violation of their EULA. Microsoft
requires that to install your copy of WinXP on another
machine, you must first uninstall it from the 1st machine.
And... Microsoft has no way to know if you really uninstalled
the 1st WinXP, they just take your word for it. But if the
2nd activation occurs within 4 months of the 1st activation,
you have to call Microsoft and tell the rep your sad tail
about the dog eating your laptop, and then he/she will enable
the 2nd activation. Otherwise, if it has been more than 4
months since the last activation, it's handled by the
automated system. In my personal experience, even the
less-than- 4-month activation is handled automatically.
Click to expand...
So you can bootleg Windoze if you have loose morals and a good
sob story? Good to know, now why the hell did I pay all that
money for a new XP Pro retail license when all I had to do was
call India tech support? Maybe because M$ would realize the next
time it calls home that the same key is simultaneously running on
both machines?

--
ATM, aka JerryR

"Gort. Klaatu. Barada. Nikto." - Klaatu to Mrs. Benson to stop
robot Gort destroying the Earth, from "The Day The Earth Stood
Still"
 
Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatically, DL laid
this on an unsuspecting readership ...
You own a licence that allows you to install on a single PC
You are the pirate
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I just love software law to death! I cannot physically drive two
cars at the same time but I can own two of them and park them
both in my driveway, and neither require "activation" to "ensure
authenticity before I can drive them home from the selling
dealer. Strange how we dummies allowed ourselves to roll over and
meekly accept the notion that when we plunk down our Visa card
and walk out with a CD in our hot little hands that we don't
"own" it, we can only "license" it, and then, only after being
literally forced to agree to the EULA, else the installer shuts
down.

What burns my ass so much about this is that I bought a block of
M$ stock some years back thinking I could ride Bill the Gates
coattails to a handsome profit, except that the idiot's personal
wealth has dropped from over $250B to less than $100B today,
based almost exclusively on the drop in the price of the stock he
personally owns since when I bought mine, 3 years ago or so. And,
while Steve Balmer has done an outstanding job as CEO doubling
both revenues and profits in 2 years on the job, Wall Street
still has this silly-ass idea that somebody is going to mug M$
some time soon, and the entire house of cards is gonna collapse.

I watched Bill bloviate for hours on cable news this week. What
will we do when his vision is no more? I certainly believe that
the hallowed walls of Redmond really are lined with the finest
minds money can buy, so how can it possibly be that they managed
to bungle Vista so badly they have to delay it damn near a year?
Aren't all those bright people aware that customers have a
romantic notion that software should work?

But - and here's the big one - if M$ thought they could in any
way slide a buggy version of Vista past the gullible folks this
Christmas, they surely would. So, it must be so severely FUBAR
that even the PhDs can't make it work.



--
ATM, aka JerryR

"Gort. Klaatu. Barada. Nikto." - Klaatu to Mrs. Benson to stop
robot Gort destroying the Earth, from "The Day The Earth Stood
Still"
 
All Things Mopar said:
So you can bootleg Windoze if you have loose morals and a good
sob story?
Click to expand...

Yes. The sob story doesn't even have to be good.
The purpose is to catch the volume merchants of
pirated software, not the onesies/twosies guys.

Good to know, now why the hell did I pay all that
money for a new XP Pro retail license when all I had to do was
call India tech support? Maybe because M$ would realize the next
time it calls home that the same key is simultaneously running on
both machines?
Click to expand...


Does WinXP call home with the activation key? How does MS
keep track of the millions and millions of WinXPs out there
and what machines they were installed on in the last 120 days?
Hint: It doesn't. TheNSAprobably does, but it doesn't tell
Microsoft. ;-)

*TimDaniels*
 
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