One XP install on 2 PCs for 30 days?

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I am upgrading to a newly built PC. I performed online activation of
Windows XP on my old PC about two years ago.

I have now also installed the same copy of XP on my new PC (as well as SP 2)
and I am in the 30 day period within which I must activate online or XP will
lock itself.

I want to transfer files from the old PC to the new PC and I am considering
using a null modem cable or a friend's home networking gear.

My question is, will XP allow me to set up a home network if both PCs have
the same install of XP on, as long as clearly, one PC is within the 30 day
grace period?
 
Jock:
I have now also installed the same copy of XP on my new PC (as well
as SP 2) and I am in the 30 day period within which I must activate
online or XP will lock itself.
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Just call and activate it.
 
Jock said:
I am upgrading to a newly built PC. I performed online activation of
Windows XP on my old PC about two years ago.

I have now also installed the same copy of XP on my new PC (as well as SP 2)
and I am in the 30 day period within which I must activate online or XP will
lock itself.

I want to transfer files from the old PC to the new PC and I am considering
using a null modem cable or a friend's home networking gear.
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What about WinXP's own Files and Settings Transfer Wizard?
My question is, will XP allow me to set up a home network if both PCs have
the same install of XP on, as long as clearly, one PC is within the 30 day
grace period?
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Why shouldn't it? (Before the 30 days have passed, you will activate
WinXP on your newly built PC and delete the WinXP installation on the
old one.)

Roy
 
Roy Coorne wrote in message said:
Why shouldn't it? (Before the 30 days have passed, you will activate
WinXP on your newly built PC and delete the WinXP installation on the
old one.)
Roy
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How will you 'winXPers' install to a new computer when microslut pulls
support, like they did with DOS/win95 and soon win98/etc. ? It sounds like
you people are at the mercy of a corporation gone mad - "pay us, or die!!".
Sometimes you want to keep/use an old computer/OS, like when you want to run
an old DOS-based game that has trouble with newer OSs.

I know this sounds like a troll, but, that is not my intention. Just
curious.
 
The GNU in your sig says it all. What do you use your rig for? Now if
you are strictly speaking to home users that surf and email with the
occasional office print jobs going on, then fine. All others, the
reasons are obvious.

I completely understand what your saying. But it is WAY too late.
Xinux's time has come and gone. Much to much chaotic development, has
left us with MS. 10years to put out one universally usable OS is way
too long.
Loosing support for 98x series OS's is only logical. Many limitations
will 'do in' an operating system, thus the demise of Xinux. One Gov -
One OS - One dollar - One world, this is the goal of the 'powers'.
Xinux doesn't fit in. When I say demise, I don't mean it will go away.
just destined to be the pest that it is.

linux installer since 1989
 
How will you 'winXPers' install to a new computer when microslut pulls
support, like they did with DOS/win95 and soon win98/etc. ? It sounds like
you people are at the mercy of a corporation gone mad - "pay us, or die!!".
Sometimes you want to keep/use an old computer/OS, like when you want to run
an old DOS-based game that has trouble with newer OSs.

I know this sounds like a troll, but, that is not my intention. Just
curious.
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Aren't there ways around product activation for XP Home even now? I'm
sure, if/when M$ do decide to drop support for XP Home, that those
little ways will become more available to the masses via the internet.
 
Peter:
Aren't there ways around product activation for XP Home even now? I'm
sure, if/when M$ do decide to drop support for XP Home, that those
little ways will become more available to the masses via the internet.
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You're assuming they will stop allowing product activation after they stop
technical support. Do you have a reason for that assumption?
 
Peter:


You're assuming they will stop allowing product activation after they stop
technical support. Do you have a reason for that assumption?
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Just responding to BobR's post, which was a response to a mention of
product activation, so thought that he was referring to the lack of
support for XP Home resulting from no support for anything XP Home. I
have no idea whether product activation will be dropped, but that's what
I thought BobR was referring to.
 
Why don't you just slave the old drive to the new drive
in the new pc, and copy your files to a backup folder
on the new drive? Much quicker than messing with a
home net .. or a crossover cable. Leave your old drive
intact until you are sure the new one is working.

johns
 
Sometimes you want to keep/use an old computer/OS, like when you want to
run
an old DOS-based game that has trouble with newer OSs.
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No such thing if you know what you are doing. I run Doom, Doom95,
under WinXP, and it works great. I have never had an old program
that I could not port to XP, and make it run even better than before.

johns
 
PENGUIN POWER PENGUIN POWER PENGUIN POWER

How will you 'winXPers' install to a new computer when microslut pulls
support, like they did with DOS/win95 and soon win98/etc. ? It sounds
like you people are at the mercy of a corporation gone mad - "pay us,
or die!!". Sometimes you want to keep/use an old computer/OS, like
when you want to run an old DOS-based game that has trouble with newer
OSs.

I know this sounds like a troll, but, that is not my intention. Just
curious.
--
Bob R
POVrookie
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Dev-C++ IDE: http://www.bloodshed.net/
POVray: http://www.povray.org/
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++: ftp://snurse-l.org/pub/acllc-c++/faq
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PENGUIN POWER PENGUIN POWER PENGUIN POWER
 
Youra said:
PENGUIN POWER PENGUIN POWER PENGUIN POWER
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Wouldn't necessarily solve the problem as the last time, 2 days ago, I went
through a Linux group looking for answers to a problem it was amusing to
see how many people used Windows to test the hardware so they could remove
that possibility while trying to find out why the heck their Linux system
wouldn't work with it.
 
Wouldn't necessarily solve the problem as the last time, 2 days ago, I
went through a Linux group looking for answers to a problem it was
amusing to see how many people used Windows to test the hardware so
they could remove that possibility while trying to find out why the
heck their Linux system wouldn't work with it.
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------no thier manufacturer of perifials are M$ pions and likely scared of
king bill
----they could just have their team write linux drivers... like ATI has
little linux support in the all in wonder line esp
 
johns said:
No such thing if you know what you are doing. I run Doom, Doom95,
under WinXP, and it works great. I have never had an old program
that I could not port to XP, and make it run even better than before.
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Ok ... I'll make you a challenge. Tell me how to run CadKey 6 under
Windows XP (without using a virtual machine like VMWare, or any other
software I have to buy), and if it works I'll PayPal you five dollars.
Ten if the instructions also work under Win2k.

Hint: it uses the PharLap DOS extended memory manager which, according
to all the official and unofficial documentation I've read, is
incompatible with any Windows other than Win95 or Win98.

- Brooks
 
Youra said:
------no thier manufacturer of perifials are M$ pions and likely scared of
king bill
----they could just have their team write linux drivers... like ATI has
little linux support in the all in wonder line esp
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Which ever 'conspiracy' you like to imagine doesn't matter to the fact they
were testing it with Windows
 
JAD said:
The GNU in your sig says it all. What do you use your rig for? Now if
you are strictly speaking to home users that surf and email with the
occasional office print jobs going on, then fine. All others, the
reasons are obvious.
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http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,99117,00.html?nlid=AM_B

"Ultimately, one of the ways the desktop will evolve from Windows to
Linux is by replacing the applications running on top of the operating
system. Once customers move to OpenOffice and Mozilla, changing the
underlying OS is a no-brainer."
 
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