XP Home edition for second PC

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Microsoft:
I have XP Home Edition 2002 installed on my new HP laptop
and I will be purchasing a new HP PC also for home use.
Why do I have to buy another version of this software for
my other computer when I am the only person using the two
computers?

Thanks, Joe
 
Because you only have one Windows XP license. If you want
Windows XP installed on another computer, you have to purchase
a second license.

Go to Start > Run and type: WINVER , and hit enter.
Then click on "End-User License Agreement" to read
the terms and conditions of the Windows XP license.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Microsoft:
| I have XP Home Edition 2002 installed on my new HP laptop
| and I will be purchasing a new HP PC also for home use.
| Why do I have to buy another version of this software for
| my other computer when I am the only person using the two
| computers?
|
| Thanks, Joe
 
Carey said:
Because you only have one Windows XP license. If you want
Windows XP installed on another computer, you have to purchase
a second license.

Go to Start > Run and type: WINVER , and hit enter.
Then click on "End-User License Agreement" to read
the terms and conditions of the Windows XP license.
Click to expand...

To the OP:
Then after doing what Carey suggests, go to these links below and read
or skim them, then make up your own mind how YOU are going to fairly use
YOUR fairly purchased COPY of XP in the privacy of your own home instead
of letting a greedy, criminal corporation decide for you.

http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/
http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/

--
hermes
DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://anti-dmca.org/
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php

Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
 
Joe said:
Microsoft:
I have XP Home Edition 2002 installed on my new HP laptop
and I will be purchasing a new HP PC also for home use.
Why do I have to buy another version of this software for
my other computer when I am the only person using the two
computers?

Thanks, Joe
Click to expand...

For reasons very similar to those why you cannot purchase two cars and
use the same set of license plates for both, even if you are the only
person that ever drives these cars.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
Greetings --

Because that's the way Microsoft chooses to sell _their_ product:
one license for each computer. But no one's making you buy Microsoft,
the choice is yours alone.

Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH
 
Joe said:
Microsoft:
I have XP Home Edition 2002 installed on my new HP laptop
and I will be purchasing a new HP PC also for home use.
Why do I have to buy another version of this software for
my other computer when I am the only person using the two
computers?

Thanks, Joe
Click to expand...

Legal/contractual/EULA reasons aside, HP usually puts the OS on a partition
on the hard drive, so there would be no way to install the OS on the second
computer. Even if you did have HP disks, they're quite proprietary, and
would be unlikely to load on another computer.
 
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