What are the steps I should follow?
a) Perform a "Repair Install" of the computer in question using
the Volume License CD and Product Key. This is the only
way to install the VL license.
b) Afterward, you can install XP Pro (the retail version) on your home PC.
c) When you have finished, activate XP as required. If activation fails,
then select the "activate by phone" option.
--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
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| your instructions were a little confusion cause you
| weren't specifying which machine or os disc
|
| the single user version is a retail copy
|
| i figured if i just installed it on my home computer and
| tried to activateit i would get the warning message that
| says its already active on another machine
|
| i need steps
| ------------
|
| what i have
| a) my retail xppro disc
| b) my multi-install xppro disc
| c) my home computer with no OS
| d) my work computer with the retail xppro installed
|
| goal
| a) get retail xppro installed on home computer
| b) switch liscense from retail copy to multi-install copy
| on work computer without screwing up any of the bazillion
| files and apps on the computer
|
| what are the steps I should follow?
| a) ??
| b) ??
| c) ??
|
|
| thanks!
|
|
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >If the "single user licensed copy of XP Pro" is an OEM
| license, then
| >it is non-transferable to another computer. If it's
| a "Retail Version",
| >then you'll have to perform a "Repair Install" using the
| new license
| >and the corresponding Windows XP CD.
| >
| >Go to Start > Run and type: WINVER , and hit enter to
| read the
| >terms of the EULA currently on that computer.
| >
| >How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
| >
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
| >
| >[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]
| >
| >--
| >Carey Frisch
| >Microsoft MVP
| >Windows XP - Shell/User
| >
| >Be Smart! Protect your PC!
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
| >
| >---------------------------------------------------------
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| >
| > | >
| >| Hi i have a PC here at work with a single user
| liscensed
| >| copy of XP Pro. We recently got a site liscence, so I
| >| would like to use the single user liscense to one of
| my
| >| home computers.
| >|
| >| i do not want to uninstall or reinstall anything that
| >| could mess up the hundreds of apps and data files on
| the
| >| work machine. I just want the work machine to use a
| >| liscense from the multi-liscense pack and free up the
| the
| >| single user copy of XPPro for my computer at home.
| >|
| >| Is there a Microsoft phone number I could call to tell
| me
| >| how to easily do this?
| >
| >.
| >
