Licence numbers?

[Guest]

When I click on Computer properties I get registered to owner "my name" then
a string of numbers XXXXX-OEM-XXXXXXX-XXXXX what are these numbers? I also
went to the Magic Jelly bean Key finder and found a XP Home Edition
XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX mixed numbers and letters. What are these?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

When I click on Computer properties I get registered to owner "my
name" then a string of numbers XXXXX-OEM-XXXXXXX-XXXXX what are
these numbers? I also went to the Magic Jelly bean Key finder and
found a XP Home Edition XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX mixed numbers
and letters. What are these?

Product ID and Product Key - in that order.
The second is used when installing Windows.
The first is more of an identifying string.

 

[VanguardLH]

When I click on Computer properties I get registered to owner "my
name" then
a string of numbers XXXXX-OEM-XXXXXXX-XXXXX what are these numbers?
I also
went to the Magic Jelly bean Key finder and found a XP Home Edition
XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX mixed numbers and letters. What are
these?

Why do you care?

 

[Phil Weldon]

'VanguardLH' wrote:
| Why do you care?
_____

Why do you care that 'augie' cares?

Phil Weldon

| | > When I click on Computer properties I get registered to owner "my
| > name" then
| > a string of numbers XXXXX-OEM-XXXXXXX-XXXXX what are these numbers?
| > I also
| > went to the Magic Jelly bean Key finder and found a XP Home Edition
| > XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX mixed numbers and letters. What are
| > these?
|
|
| Why do you care?
|

 

[RobertVA]

Product ID and Product Key - in that order.
The second is used when installing Windows.
The first is more of an identifying string.

Also be aware that your individual product key might not match what a
major manufacturer originally installed on the computer. Often the
manufacturer installs the OS on a single computer and duplicates the
files from that hard drive, and that special key, on thousands of
computers with similar hardware. Reinstallation of the OS with the
customer's optical media or hidden partition recovery might require
Activation with your individual key from YOUR Certificate Of
Authenticity (COA).

 

[DL]

because he doesnt have the winxp cd & is hoping to be able to move an oem
instalation to a different pc

 

[VanguardLH]

"VanguardLH" ...

Why do you care that 'augie' cares?

augie did not ask the *real* question that augie wants answered.
Knowing the product key is worthless by and of itself alone. augie is
being surreptitious but that is beyond your recognition. augie is
fishing.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

augie did not ask the *real* question that augie wants answered.
Knowing the product key is worthless by and of itself alone. augie
is being surreptitious but that is beyond your recognition. augie
is fishing.

In this case - 'augie' has asked several questions in the same group. Some
may have seen these other postings while others might not have.

I believe some of this may explain better what 'augie' may have been curious
about and why some might have the assumptions they have about augie's
motives...

augie wrote

I have computer with a mother board from an HP Vectra VL400 with a
1000 meghertz Intel Celeron and a 200G harddrive. With an
authentic XP home operating system. No disks, I bought it used.
But I have the needed home edition codes. Slow but I like XP. I
just bought a used Gateway E-2000 with a
Pentium 4 and a very small, very noisy hard drive, and all the
disks for Window 2000. Much faster than my old one. I would like
to move my hard drive
with XP Home into the Gateway E-2000. How do I do that? I tried
just moving
the harddrive into the Gateway and that did not work? any
suggestions??

If you dont have the o/s system cd's you cannot either replace the
mobo or move the hd to a new PC
In order to do either you would need to run a repair installation
of win It also maybe the case that winxp you have maybe locked to
the hardware of the HP

The Windows XP user license for the HP is very likely an OEM license
that does not authorize you to use the Operating System (OS) on
another computer. Many name brand computers come with OSs that are
customized to work with a narrow range of computer model numbers
and will refuse to work with motherboard models they are not
configured for anyway. Some OEM licenses are supplied on separate
media (like the ones you describe for the Gateway), but some have
software in a hidden hard drive partition for restoring the
computer to the same software and data configuration it was in when
shipped or delivered to the end user. The non-transferable OEM
license limitations probably apply to the Windows 2000 for the
Gateway as well.
Use of the larger hard drive in the Gateway would require the
installation of the Windows 2000 OS on the larger hard drive or the
installation of Windows XP under a different end user license than
the one that came with the HP. If HP was utilizing removable media
as the original owners avenue to recover a damaged OS your Windows
XP OS would become unrecoverable.

Well Thanks, I am going with the bigger hard drive and will just
run the Win2000 on it (still much faster with the Pentuim 4) then
since I can not get IE7, I will use Mozilla for tabbed browsing lol.
I did learn new things today so thanks all.

You can accomplish what you want by making backup images on
external drives for both systems.
Then, take the large drive install it in your Pentium system and
copy the backup drive onto it.

that wont work

Hopefully that explains the motives behinds augie's questions a bit more.
It may not - but *shrug*....

 

[Bruce Chambers]

When I click on Computer properties I get registered to owner "my name" then
a string of numbers XXXXX-OEM-XXXXXXX-XXXXX what are these numbers?

That's the Product ID. The Product *ID* is created during the
installation process and is prominently displayed on the General
Properties tab of the My Computer icon. It is used to obtain/qualify
for technical support (limited though that may be) from Microsoft.

I also
went to the Magic Jelly bean Key finder and found a XP Home Edition
XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX mixed numbers and letters. What are these?

That's the Product Key. The Product *Key* is used to "prove" ownership
of a legitimate license and is required to perform the installation, and
is either stored on the CD packaging on a bright orange sticker that
says "Do not lose this number," or is on a label affixed to an OEM
computer.


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Bruce Chambers

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