Selling XP Home edition

[William Nick Sr.]

First time posting. Hope someone knows the answer. I
bought Home edition at Christmas for my 12 year old (let
him load it and set it up, too). Just upgraded him to Pro
and want to sell the Home to his day care provider. BUT,
I already registered and activated it with MS. Can I
still sell it to her and put it on her PC?

 

[richard]

-----Original Message-----
First time posting. Hope someone knows the answer. I
bought Home edition at Christmas for my 12 year old (let
him load it and set it up, too). Just upgraded him to Pro
and want to sell the Home to his day care provider. BUT,
I already registered and activated it with MS. Can I
still sell it to her and put it on her PC?
.
as long as you bought a retail copy and not an oem the

answer is yes.

 

[Willit]

sell it and don't worry about it. fi it's been 120 days
they have no record of it.

 

[William]

-----Original Message-----
First time posting. Hope someone knows the answer. I
bought Home edition at Christmas for my 12 year old (let
him load it and set it up, too). Just upgraded him to Pro
and want to sell the Home to his day care provider. BUT,
I already registered and activated it with MS. Can I
still sell it to her and put it on her PC?
.

Thanks!!!

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Yes, as long as it is a retail version (not OEM), and no longer installed on
any machine. You must provide the Product Key with the CD. You may not sell
it to them if it is OEM.

 

[Alex Nichol]

First time posting. Hope someone knows the answer. I
bought Home edition at Christmas for my 12 year old (let
him load it and set it up, too). Just upgraded him to Pro
and want to sell the Home to his day care provider. BUT,
I already registered and activated it with MS. Can I
still sell it to her and put it on her PC?

As long as it was a retail copy, not one of the cheaper OEM ones, and
you have removed it to install a *full* version of Pro, go ahead. If
you used an *upgrade* version of Pro, then that needs a previous system
to support the license - unless the machine had an earlier system, say a
Win98, the Home one does not become 'free'

When it comes to activation, you may find it will go through on the net
anyway - if more than 120 days since you last did, which it sounds as if
it is, it certainly will. If not, you will have to phone a toll-free
number that will be given, to explain and swap one long number for
another to check back as you type it in

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Assuming a retail license that was not used as a qualifying
product for WinXP Prop Upgrade, you can sell the WinXP Home license
once it's been removed from the PC.

Bruce Chambers

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