Vista said:
I bought this computer last year and i got upgrade kit from DELL. So I
upgraded to Vista Home Premium from XP media center 2005 editoin.
I want to install XP media center 2005 on my compaq, using product key from
pre-installed one.
Is it possible to using that product key? eventhough I upgraded from that
product?
No. By your own admission, you have an OEM license for WinXP MCE that
came with the Dell. An OEM version must be sold with a piece of
hardware (normally a motherboard or hard rive, if not an entire PC) and
is _permanently_ bound to the first PC on which it's installed. An OEM
license, once installed, is not legally transferable to another computer
under _any_ circumstances.
Secondly, when one uses an Upgrade license, the older license that's
used as a qualifying product for the Upgrade license cannot legitimately
be used anywhere else, as it becomes subsumed by, and an inseparable
part of, the upgrade.
You'll have to purchase a WinXP license to go with the second
computer.
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