Theoretical question.

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I just had a theoretical question:

Say someone bought a computer from a store. It had windows xp on it. Is
there a way to tell if it was an original version of XP on the system, or if
the store just used an upgrade from Windows ME?

Would this pose a problem in any way? That customer would not be recommened
to use another upgrade for Windows Vista after that or Windows 7 is what I'v
been told.
 
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I just had a theoretical question:

Say someone bought a computer from a store. It had windows
xp on it. Is there a way to tell if it was an original
version of XP on the system, or if the store just used an
upgrade from Windows ME?
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I have never heard of a "reputable seller" doing something like
that. If anything, they would try to convince you there IS no XP
upgrade to move all their copies of Me (or whatever OS you are
actually interested in).

Hell, when Win95B/C were available for OEM's with FAT32 and
(limited, but) USB support etc., MS and their slave retailers
were still happily selling Win95A, with only FAT16 and all its
other shortcomings.
Would this pose a problem in any way? That customer would
not be recommened to use another upgrade for Windows Vista
after that or Windows 7 is what I'v been told.
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Everyone will tell you something different, and when problems
start happening, you'll find out it was all wrong.

I post this all the time:

The only reasonable way to buy a computer is to have a friendly
neighborhood computer shop build one to your /exact/ specs,
without all the shit you don't need or want, and WITH the stuff
you need or want but will either not get at all, or get the
cheapest/worst quality (that's what goes into name brand
computers in case you didn't know), all for a lower price than a
name brand and with service a few blocks away instead of weeks
or months of emails and charged LD phone calls.

In your case, I'll add this:

And with the ORIGINAL FULL ORIGINAL OEM CD/DVD for the OS you
want. NOT a "upgraded or not?", "hidden restore partition", or
any such voodoo.
 
Brian said:
I just had a theoretical question:

Say someone bought a computer from a store. It had windows xp on it. Is
there a way to tell if it was an original version of XP on the system, or if
the store just used an upgrade from Windows ME?

Would this pose a problem in any way? That customer would not be recommened
to use another upgrade for Windows Vista after that or Windows 7 is what I'v
been told.
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Stores don't waste time to install a full version and then follow with
installing an upgrade version. They purchase a volume license and use an
image to prep the pre-built host. To you, that would be an OEM version of
the OS. They don't do installs (and they definitely don't do upgrades).
They copy partition images onto the hard disk.
 
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