Windows XP HOME UPDATE CD

[Guest]

Hello, I've used my update cd once to make my 98 SE to XP home.
With no problem, I went to update my other computer the same way
and It won't let me acctavate my 2nd install.
Can you only use this once?

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Hello, I've used my update cd once to make my 98 SE to XP home.
With no problem, I went to update my other computer the same way
and It won't let me acctavate my 2nd install.
Can you only use this once?

You can use the CD as many times as you like BUT you must buy a license
(with a new Product Activation Key) for each machine you intend to upgrade,
just as you did for the existing operating systems on those machines. You
need to buy a license for every PC you have that has Windows installed on
it.
Just because you may have physically been able to install Windows 98 on many
machines after you only bought one copy - that is piracy/theft.
Windows is licensed as one copy per machine.


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[Bruce Chambers]

Hello, I've used my update cd once to make my 98 SE to XP home.
With no problem, I went to update my other computer the same way
and It won't let me acctavate my 2nd install.
Can you only use this once?

That's correct. Just as it says, right on the box, you need to
purchase a separate WinXP license for each computer on which you install it.

As it has *always* been with *all* Microsoft operating systems,
it's necessary (to be in compliance with both the EULA and U.S.
copyright law http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/117.html), if not
technically) to purchase one WinXP license for each computer on which it
is installed. (Consult an attorney versed in copyright law to determine
final applicability in your locale.) The only way in which WinXP
licensing differs from that of earlier versions of Windows is that
Microsoft has finally added a copy protection and anti-theft mechanism,
Product Activation, to prevent (or at least make more difficult)
multiple installations using a single license.

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Bruce Chambers

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