XP activation

[Bruin]

Recently I purchased my academic version of XP Pro from the University
bookstore. It also came with the 64 bit edition. I used it on a new
machine I built & I am very happy with it. I have a dual boot set-up with
both the 32 bit & the 64 bit.

They told me that this version is good for three installations. I am
planning a second machine. Anyone know if what they told me was true?
They won't sell me another copy as it's one CD per student, for life.

TIA!

 

[Richard Urban]

Please read the EULA on the CD. It will list any limitations.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[phillip maurice nelson]

yes, according to your EULA agreement it is one
per machine.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

All versions of Windows XP only permit one installation
on one computer. You cannot use the same license more
than once.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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| Recently I purchased my academic version of XP Pro from the University
| bookstore. It also came with the 64 bit edition. I used it on a new
| machine I built & I am very happy with it. I have a dual boot set-up with
| both the 32 bit & the 64 bit.
|
| They told me that this version is good for three installations. I am
| planning a second machine. Anyone know if what they told me was true?
| They won't sell me another copy as it's one CD per student, for life.
|
| TIA!

 

[Chuck]

All retail versions, perhaps. Other versions differ.
There are multiple OEM and corporate versions, as well as federal government
versions.
(What a support nightmare!)

 

[Alias]

No EULA on the CD that I can see. However, there is a label that reads:

IMPORTANT!

-This fulfillment CD has been provided as a result of your company's
volume purchase agreement...

& a bunch of other lines of text.

"My Company" is UofMichigan. I can only assume what I was told is
correct & I can activate Windows two more times.

Thoughts?

You can find it by opening help and searching for EULA. When it shows
the results, click on the one that says What does my EULA say.

Alias

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Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail.

 

[Mungo Bulge]

Actually, that is an oversimplification of a truth. Some special
exceptions exist. MSDN CD's are 10 installations, Academia are 3, but
in every case of the exception, the use is also for exception
circumstances. The academic version is for just that. Situations where
a student would need several installations, simultaneously, and the
cost burden would be prohibitive.
By the way, dual boot of 32 and 64 bit systems counts as two, so only
one more installation is left.


| All versions of Windows XP only permit one installation
| on one computer. You cannot use the same license more
| than once.
|
| --
| Carey Frisch
| Microsoft MVP
| Windows Shell/User
|
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|
| "Bruin" wrote:
|
|| Recently I purchased my academic version of XP Pro from the
University
|| bookstore. It also came with the 64 bit edition. I used it on a
new
|| machine I built & I am very happy with it. I have a dual boot
set-up with
|| both the 32 bit & the 64 bit.
||
|| They told me that this version is good for three installations. I
am
|| planning a second machine. Anyone know if what they told me was
true?
|| They won't sell me another copy as it's one CD per student, for
life.
||
|| TIA!
|

 

[Alias]

Unfortunately that is the general default EULA, the license agreement
that UofM has may (& most likely is) different.
The only sure way for me to find out is to LOAD it, patch it, then
attempt activation. If it works... I know the answer.

Keep in mind this is not about attempting to get something free, pirate,
or cheat in any way. I am just trying to verify what I was told at the
bookstore.

The problem with that is it may activate on twenty computers ...

Alias

Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me.
Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Chuck;
Probably not a support nightmare at all.
Microsoft probably offers no support for most of these, instead, the
distributing source furnishes the support they determine necessary.
Hopefully the distributor knows what they are distributing and set up
appropriate policies.

 

[Guest]

Even if you use a virtual machine with one of your os', it still costs you
one license per os. Sorry.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Recently I purchased my academic version of XP Pro from the University
bookstore. It also came with the 64 bit edition. I used it on a new
machine I built & I am very happy with it. I have a dual boot set-up with
both the 32 bit & the 64 bit.

They told me that this version is good for three installations. I am
planning a second machine. Anyone know if what they told me was true?
They won't sell me another copy as it's one CD per student, for life.

So where is the count kept? On the CD? At Microsoft? How
would such a count be implemented?

If WinXP/64 Pro is anything like WinXP Pro, there is no count.
I recently had to re-activate several clones due to experiments
in which I had to juggle a lot components in the PC, and each
clone re-activated online as if there were no knowledge of the
other activations. The EULA is what Microsoft wishes you
would do, but your conscience is the real determinant.

*TimDaniels*