REGISTRATION OF SECOND COMPUTER

[Guest]

BOUGHT A COPY OF WINDOWS XP ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO AND LOADED IT ONTO MY FIRST PC
DECIDED TO BUILD A SECOND PC
WANT TO LOAD SAME COPY OF XP AND REGISTER ONTO THE SECOND PC
SO IN REALITY I HAVE TWO COMPUTERS RUNNING OF ONE COPY OF XP.
IS THIS POSSIBLE
(WOULD RATHER NOT USE HACKS OR CRACKS AS I SPENT £70 ON LEGIT COPY)

 

[Guest]

One copy of xp gets licensed to one machine,when registering xp,you
recieve a notice that its already registered to another.

 

[Jerry]

You can buy another license to use the copy you have. Microsoft will give a
15% discount. Check their website.

 

[Jack]

Jake...

wanna buy a bridge.......and turn those caps lock off......

 

[Cerridwen]

BOUGHT A COPY OF WINDOWS XP ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO AND LOADED IT ONTO MY
FIRST PC DECIDED TO BUILD A SECOND PC
WANT TO LOAD SAME COPY OF XP AND REGISTER ONTO THE SECOND PC
SO IN REALITY I HAVE TWO COMPUTERS RUNNING OF ONE COPY OF XP.
IS THIS POSSIBLE
(WOULD RATHER NOT USE HACKS OR CRACKS AS I SPENT £70 ON LEGIT COPY)

1) Lose the caps - it's considered yelling, is incredibly rude and makes
your posts extremely hard to read.

2) You are admitting that you want to violate the EULA (which,
incidentally, has been the same since at least Windows 3.1) in a
Microsoft-hosted group. What a ****wit.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

First of all, please unstick your CapsLock key. Posting in all
caps, as you have done, is the Usenet equivalent of shouting, and is
considered very rude. More importantly, posting in all caps makes the
post very hard to read, further reducing your chances of getting help.

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with the EULA, if not technically)
to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on which it is
installed. The only way in which WinXP licensing differs from that of
earlier versions of Windows is that Microsoft has finally added a copy
protection and anti-theft mechanism, Product Activation, to prevent
(or at least make more difficult) multiple installations using a
single license.


Bruce Chambers

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[peter]

http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

read this all the way through ....think about it and you will realize it IS
possible
peter

 

[Alex Nichol]

BOUGHT A COPY OF WINDOWS XP ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO AND LOADED IT ONTO MY FIRST PC
DECIDED TO BUILD A SECOND PC
WANT TO LOAD SAME COPY OF XP AND REGISTER ONTO THE SECOND PC
SO IN REALITY I HAVE TWO COMPUTERS RUNNING OF ONE COPY OF XP.

That is exactly what the Product Activation system was designed to stop
you doing. Windows is (and has been ever since Win95) provided under a
license to use it on ONE machine only at any time