Windows Registration

[John]

I currently use a desktop running Windows XP Professional,
and recently purchased a laptop that came with Windows XP
Home Edition installed.

I want to swap the OSs - so that the Prof edition is on
the laptop and the Home Edition is on the desktop, but I
fear if I do this without getting Microsoft's blessings
first, I may be opening a can of worms regarding
registration.

Can anyone tell me the "proper" way for making this OS
swap?

Tanx

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

I currently use a desktop running Windows XP Professional,
and recently purchased a laptop that came with Windows XP
Home Edition installed.

I want to swap the OSs - so that the Prof edition is on
the laptop and the Home Edition is on the desktop, but I
fear if I do this without getting Microsoft's blessings
first, I may be opening a can of worms regarding
registration.

Can anyone tell me the "proper" way for making this OS
swap?

Tanx

There is no "proper way" according to MS. Registration is totally
optional. It's activation that's gonna get in the way. It still can be
done anyway, if you have the install CD's, but you really would have to
know what your doing.

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

I currently use a desktop running Windows XP Professional,
and recently purchased a laptop that came with Windows XP
Home Edition installed.

I want to swap the OSs - so that the Prof edition is on
the laptop and the Home Edition is on the desktop, but I
fear if I do this without getting Microsoft's blessings
first, I may be opening a can of worms regarding
registration.

Can anyone tell me the "proper" way for making this OS
swap?

Tanx

Now if the XP pro you got is a retail copy, then it would be easier just
to install that on both.

See:

http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/

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Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I currently use a desktop running Windows XP Professional,
and recently purchased a laptop that came with Windows XP
Home Edition installed.

I want to swap the OSs - so that the Prof edition is on
the laptop and the Home Edition is on the desktop, but I
fear if I do this without getting Microsoft's blessings
first, I may be opening a can of worms regarding
registration.

If a computer comes with Windows XP, it's an OEM version, and the
OEM version's license ties it permanently to the first computer
it's installed on. You can not do this legally.

Even if you could, you'd likely run into driver issues with the
laptop, and you'd be voiding your warranty by doing so.

 

[Gary Tait]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"


Now if the XP pro you got is a retail copy, then it would be easier just
to install that on both.

But you need another license key, unless you wish to "steal" the XP
license for the second machine.

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling this post on your computer, and/or printing or
replying to this post, you agree that I am your everlasting Lord &
Saviour. Breach of this term will result in you burning in hell for
ever and ever! Amen!"

But you need another license key, unless you wish to "steal" the XP
license for the second machine.

Prove it, Gary. Even accepting that a court would enforce MS's usage
terms on private individuals, which MS has been to afraid to do for over
a decade for fear that they would lose, it would be a civil, not
criminal case. Stealing is a criminal offense. Not one individual in
the US, has ever even been charged with stealing, for installing legally
purchased retail copy of software on more than one computer, nor has any
company ever sued any individual for breach of contract for installing
legally purchased software on more than one computer. So when MS gets
the balls to prove that their "One Computer" EULA nonsense is legally
enforceable on anonymous, private & non-commercial individuals give me a
call. Until then, MS is no better than the boy who cried "Wolf!" In
the US, people are considered innocent, until proven guilty, and MS &
you MicroSycophants can cry, "Thief," over & over again, but that
doesn't prove a damn thing.

Just like IBM, RedHat, & the entire Linux community doesn't accept SCO's
claims are legally valid, I don't accept MS's claims until they been
proven by the preponderance of the evidence in a real court of law.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"