Swapping XP Home and XP Professional two different computers

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Kent

I just bought a copy of XP Professional and later bought a
new computer with XP Home preinstalled. I want to swap
Home with Professional and want to move the HOME version
to another computer can this be done?
 
Kent, you can upgrade to WinXP Pro but since XP Home came with the
computer either you have Recovery Disks or
a OEM version of XP which will only work on that computer. Maybe somebody
else will weigh in on this and have
another option.
 
Kent said:
I just bought a copy of XP Professional and later bought a
new computer with XP Home preinstalled. I want to swap
Home with Professional and want to move the HOME version
to another computer can this be done?
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If the XP home on the new computer is OEM, it cannot be used on another
computer. OEM versions of Windows XP are tied to the original computer it is
installed to.
Retail versions can be moved to as many computers as you want as long as it
is removed from the previous system.
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No, of course not.

First of all, if I correctly understand that WinXP Home came
pre-installed on the computer from the factory, you have an OEM
license for WinXP Home. An OEM version must be sold with a piece of
hardware (normally a motherboard or hard drive, if not an entire PC)
and is _permanently_ bound to the first PC on which it's installed.
An OEM license, once installed, is not legally transferable to another
computer under _any_ circumstances. You can remove or replace it, if
you like, but you cannot reuse it on a different computer.


Bruce Chambers

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