install xp to different computer

[Alan]

I have a copy of windows xp pro that I purchased and
installed on my home computer, I have now built a new
computer and want to use my copy of xp on it instead. How
do I do this and not foul up the registration. Thanks

 

[PB]

I had to call Microsoft and they gave me a new
registration number to use. It didn't cost a thing.

 

[Willit]

Just do it, if its been over 120 days it will activate
online, if not it's a automated phone call. You punch in
your number and they give you the key back.

 

[Guest]

Whats the phone automated number?
thanks,

-----Original Message-----
Just do it, if its been over 120 days it will activate
online, if not it's a automated phone call. You punch in
your number and they give you the key back.







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[Ken Blake]

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I have a copy of windows xp pro that I purchased and
installed on my home computer, I have now built a new
computer and want to use my copy of xp on it instead. How
do I do this and not foul up the registration. Thanks

If yours is a retail copy, just remove it from the old computer
and install it on the new one, then activate it as usual. If it's
been over 120 days, activation will take place over the internet
just as easily as it did before. If it's been fewer than 120
days, you'll be given an 800 number to call to accomplish
activation; when you call, just explain the circumstances and
they'll activate you by phone--almost as quickly and easily as
over the internet.

On the other hand, if yours is an OEM copy, you can't do it at
all. Its license ties it permanently to the first computer it's
installed on. It can never legally be moved to another computer,
sold, or given away.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a copy of windows xp pro that I purchased and
installed on my home computer, I have now built a new
computer and want to use my copy of xp on it instead. How
do I do this and not foul up the registration

Windows is provided to you (as for at least ten years) under a license
to use it on one machine and one only. A retail copy you may *transfer*
to a new one, but not have on two at once. To do that, you remove it
from the old machine, and install on the new. When it comes to
activation, if it is more than 120 days since you last did it, you will
find it will go through on the net just like first time. If not, you
will have to phone a toll-free number that will be given, to explain and
swap one long number for another to check back as you type it in

Don't bother with the registration of you as owner. And note that if it
was one of the 'OEM' copies, supplied 'only with a new computer' you may
not transfer it at all: that is the downside of the cheaper price