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I have an oem version of windows xp. The original computer
is trashed and the product key along with it. Never thought
to get the sticker off of it. This was a home built
computer so there is noone else to contact. I had it
activated with MS before and have the original CD. Is there
any way to get a new product key? And I am not willing to
buy it. I paid for this OS and should have every right to
use it.
 
Sorry....you are completely out of luck on this issue.
Microsoft only supports users of the "retail versions"
of Windows XP.

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Nicholas

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| I have an oem version of windows xp. The original computer
| is trashed and the product key along with it. Never thought
| to get the sticker off of it. This was a home built
| computer so there is noone else to contact. I had it
| activated with MS before and have the original CD. Is there
| any way to get a new product key? And I am not willing to
| buy it. I paid for this OS and should have every right to
| use it.
 
How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;326246

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Paul
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www.paulsxp.com/forums

| I have an oem version of windows xp. The original computer
| is trashed and the product key along with it. Never thought
| to get the sticker off of it. This was a home built
| computer so there is noone else to contact. I had it
| activated with MS before and have the original CD. Is there
| any way to get a new product key? And I am not willing to
| buy it. I paid for this OS and should have every right to
| use it.
 
Your contradicting yourself. you have a home built
computer and yet you couldnt take the sticker off the cd
case. very confusing.

--but heck what do i know im just 15--
 
| Your contradicting yourself. you have a home built
| computer and yet you couldnt take the sticker off the cd
| case. very confusing.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I have an oem version of windows xp. The original computer
| >is trashed and the product key along with it. Never thought
| >to get the sticker off of it.

Read again exactly what the OP said.

Larc



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I have an oem version of windows xp. The original computer
is trashed and the product key along with it. Never thought
to get the sticker off of it. This was a home built
computer so there is noone else to contact. I had it
activated with MS before and have the original CD. Is there
any way to get a new product key? And I am not willing to
buy it. I paid for this OS and should have every right to
use it.
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Sorry, you may think you should have that right, but you don't.

When you bought and installed it, you agreed to the EULA. And one
of the terms of the OEM EULA is that the license is permanently
tied to the first computer it's installed on. An OEM version can
never be moved to another computer. When your first computer
died, the license to use that copy of XP died with it.

This is, to my mind, the single biggest disadvantage of buying an
OEM version.
 
Greetings --

You have no "rights" to use any sort of operating system or
software application that you didn't develop yourself. You, like
everyone else in the world can only buy the copyright owner's
permission to use the product for as long as you abide by the terms of
the specific license. As for the OEM WinXP, what you paid for was a
license (permission, in simple terms) to use that copy on only the PC
on which it was first installed, and no other, under any
circumstances. Having trashed that original PC, you have also trashed
your license to use that particular copy of WinXP.

Bruce Chambers

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having both at once. -- RAH
 
I build my own computers and for others as well and I
have access to OEM versions because I am a system builder
(registered business), even though it is not my main
source of income.My computer that the O.S. (OEM) was
first installed on has been upgraded so extensively, it
barely resembles the original computer. The hard drive is
one of the few items remaining that is original.
Upgrading on this machine is a regular occurrence, mainly
video cards, cpu's and occasionally mainboard.Does this
mean that everytime I do an upgrade on this machine, I
would have to buy a new OEM??
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The OEM license, as you apparently know, restricts it to the
original machine it's installed on. But it's never really made
clear just what is meant by "the same machine." What or how much
of something can be changed and have it still be called the same
thing is a very interesting philosophical question. For example,
there are very few cells in my body that were there 50 years ago;
does that make me a different person?

It's hard to find two people who have the same answer to this
question, but I have my own personal opinion that I *think* would
be defensible in a court of law (but note that I am *not* a
lawyer). It's Microsoft's requirement to put the sticker
containing the OEM product key on the case, presumably to
identify that case and what's in it as the "computer" that
Windows needs to stay on. So I think that looking at the case as
what you have to keep for it be the same computer is a legitimate
point of view.
 
Good answer Ken.

-----Original Message-----
I build my own computers and for others as well and I
have access to OEM versions because I am a system builder
(registered business), even though it is not my main
source of income.My computer that the O.S. (OEM) was
first installed on has been upgraded so extensively, it
barely resembles the original computer. The hard drive is
one of the few items remaining that is original.
Upgrading on this machine is a regular occurrence, mainly
video cards, cpu's and occasionally mainboard.Does this
mean that everytime I do an upgrade on this machine, I
would have to buy a new OEM??

I know very few people who have gone out and paid $A450
for a boxed version of XP home when they can get it for
$A150 OEM, the only difference being the "box" and the
license agreement, which I doubt too many people would
take much notice of.
It's all well and good sprouting on about interlectual
property and license agreements etc, etc. but the fact
remains that Microsoft has had a long and shabby record
on the lack of reliability of their products. The huge
costs caused by their failure to deliver a reliable
product really shows why people have had a gutfull of
their products, especially Windows and one can not blame
them for violating the agreements. After all, Microsoft
are really not abiding by their obligations, that is,
providing a reliable product that consummers ARE PAYING
FOR. I have been told that if Microsoft wants people to
be serious about license agreements, then they ought to
get serious about the products they produce and the
losses they cause people thru' their substandard products.

Fortunately the problems that Windows has caused me over
the years have not caused me much financial loss, only
extreme frustration and it has come to the point now that
I am in the process of changing to the far superior and
cheap alternative LINUX. Hopefully, more and more people
will do the same, thereby sending a wakeup call to
Microsoft.

Rick
willing right
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I think Microsoft has only one thing in mind. How to increase their 53
BILLION dollar CASH reserve. They are losing track of how they built up
their reserve. Trouble the Linux groups are getting more fragmented and
political and are their own worst enemy.
 
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