'XP home edition' Activation code???

[kingswood]

Hi,

I'm considering upgrading to XP professional from XP home edition and then
to sell my Home edition. But I only have the CD, I wasn't given a
certificate when I bought my PC. Is this normal, and would I need to
deactivate my version before the another person could use it?

/Barney

 

[wojo]

You don't get certificates anymore. The activation code on the back of the
CD is all you need. You don't need to deactivate it. You only ned to
activate the PRO version with the new activation key. The old key goes with
the old software.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

First of all, based upon the description you've provided, you have
an OEM license for WinXP Home. An OEM version must be sold with a
piece of hardware (normally a motherboard or hard rive, 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 can
neither reuse it on a different computer or resell it.

Additionally, If you use an Upgrade version of WinXP Pro, the
license for WinXP Home will be subsumed (became an integral part of)
by the WinXP Pro Upgrade license. Basically, you have no license to
use the Upgrade version without there also being an earlier qualifying
license _permanently_ in place.


Bruce Chambers
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[Steve C. Ray]

If you use a Pro Upgrade the Home license is considered a part of the Pro
upgrade and the Home can't be used on another computer. Also, if the Home
version came installed on your computer it is probably a OEM version. OEM
versions are licensed only to the computer upon which it was first
installed, and can't be used on another. Plus, the OEM Home version may be
BIOS locked to the computer and will not work on another computer.

 

[wojo]

Good point. I didn't think of the fact that it was probably OEM.

 

[Donald McDaniel]

Hi,

I'm considering upgrading to XP professional from XP home edition and
then to sell my Home edition. But I only have the CD, I wasn't given
a certificate when I bought my PC. Is this normal, and would I need
to deactivate my version before the another person could use it?

/Barney

Ive not heard of any legal copies of XP being sold without a COA, even if
the COA is pasted on the side of the computer case. If you don't have COA,
you probably don't have a legal copy of XP.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Actually, there's no "probably" about it. A WinXP installation CD
without both a Product Key _and_ a CoA (sometimes the two are on a
single label, though) is not a valid license.

Bruce Chambers
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