Selling Windows XP

[K]

All- If I'm selling Windows XP, and it came with a laptop,
how does the new owner register? This version has been
registered.

How is title transfered??


Best
K

 

[purplehaz]

If it came pre-installed on a laptop, then you don't. You cannot
sell/transfer an oem copy of XP. It is tied to that laptop for ever. This is
one reason why you paid less for an oem version of xp.

 

[Jeffrey Struyk [MVP]]

All- If I'm selling Windows XP, and it came with a laptop,
how does the new owner register? This version has been
registered.

How is title transfered??

You can't transfer the license on an OEM version of Windows XP.

 

[David Candy]

More Info.

You have to sell the laptop with XP. You can sell it but only with the
laptop.

This is the reason your version of XP was 1/2 price.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If the OS came pre-installed on your laptop, it's an OEM license.
The only legal way to sell an OEM license, once it's been installed
onto a computer, is to sell the entire computer.


Bruce Chambers

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[Bern]

If you sell your computer with the XP, Microsoft does not care who the owner
is. Don't worry about registration or activation.

 

[David Candy]

Perhaps or perhaps not. Not all OEM are locked to the BIOS.

 

[Michael Stevens]

All- If I'm selling Windows XP, and it came with a laptop,
how does the new owner register? This version has been
registered.

How is title transfered??


Best
K

Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#how2
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[Alex Nichol]

All- If I'm selling Windows XP, and it came with a laptop,
how does the new owner register? This version has been
registered.

How is title transfered??

The essential is activation - which belongs to the machine (and
accompanies it automatically), not to the owner. It does not need
registering to an owner - that is for the benefit of marketing. As long
as you transfer the CD (if any), documentation, and certificate of
Authenticity, which on a laptop should be stuck to the underside and
contain the Product Key of 25 characters needed for a reinstallation,
you have done all that is needed