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I am giving WinXP Professional to a friend of mine as I no
longer use it. When he receives the software can I transfer
my key to him also? He is not rich and can't afford to buy a
key.

What steps do we need to take if any for a key transfer?

Thank you,
Wally
 
WallyBugg said:
I am giving WinXP Professional to a friend of mine as I no
longer use it. When he receives the software can I transfer
my key to him also? He is not rich and can't afford to buy a
key.

What steps do we need to take if any for a key transfer?
Click to expand...

Is it a Retail license?
(Not an OEM license... Came installed on the system or you bought it much
less expensively and it was basically the CD, a sticker and a cardboard
backing wrapped in cellophane?)
 
Hi Wally,

You may transfer your copy of XP, along with the Product Key to your friend
as long as it's a Retail version of XP, *and* you no longer have it
installed on another machine. If your copy is an OEM version, that copy and
key is tied to the original machine it was installed on, and may not be
installed elsewhere.

--
Curt
http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://www.aumha.org/


|I am giving WinXP Professional to a friend of mine as I no
| longer use it. When he receives the software can I transfer
| my key to him also? He is not rich and can't afford to buy a
| key.
|
| What steps do we need to take if any for a key transfer?
|
| Thank you,
| Wally
 
WallyBugg said:
I am giving WinXP Professional to a friend of mine as I no
longer use it. When he receives the software can I transfer
my key to him also? He is not rich and can't afford to buy a
key.

What steps do we need to take if any for a key transfer?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Is it a Retail license?
(Not an OEM license... Came installed on the system or you bought
it much less expensively and it was basically the CD, a sticker and
a cardboard backing wrapped in cellophane?)
Click to expand...

Assuming your answer to that is a resounding, "Yes - it is a retail copy.
It came in the pretty oversized cardboard box and clear plastic CD case..."

You hand your friend the CD, the product key for the install, you make sure
you do not have it installed anywhere else and you send your friend on way
to installing Windows XP.... Nothing else is necessary. When they have to
activate - worst case - they will have to call to activate instead of
activating over the Internet.

If your answer is, "It's an OEM copy..." -- then according to the strict
language of the End User License Agreement that comes with OEM licensed
products from Microsoft - you cannot give that license to anyone. If the
first computer it was installed upon dies, so does the license.
 
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