XP Media Center Keys

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Hi,

Real general question here, that I'm sure has been aswered....

I have Windows Media Center 2005 on my home PC, (Valid copy), and bought a
laptop with that on it as well, (Valid also). The laptop came with a lot of
bloat on it, software I will never buy or use.
Can I use my Home OEM copy to wipe and do a fresh install on my laptop, and
just use the laptop key that came with it? Is the key with the laptop
compatible with the OEM disk?

Thanks for your time in advance,

Doug
 
Hi,

Real general question here, that I'm sure has been aswered....

I have Windows Media Center 2005 on my home PC, (Valid copy), and bought a
laptop with that on it as well, (Valid also). The laptop came with a lot
of bloat on it, software I will never buy or use.
Can I use my Home OEM copy to wipe and do a fresh install on my laptop,
and just use the laptop key that came with it? Is the key with the laptop
compatible with the OEM disk?
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On the laptop did you get a regular windows XP MCE installation CD or a
recovery CD? It is quite possible the key on laptop will only work with the
recovery CD for the laptop.
 
Restore disk, with a ghosted image....

Bad news eh?

"Rock" wrote
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Unfortunately the news is the license key on the laptop will only work with
the restore CD. XP installation CDs and keys are tied as to type.

Retail v. generic OEM v. Volume license v. Branded OEM (including recovery
CDs)
Home v. Pro
Language
 
Alright, thanks Rock..... I actually called Toshiba and they informed me
that it "should work", but I don't have a lot of confidence in the guy that
directed me. He acted like Joe Blow, with an "I don't know" attitude pretty
much.
I'm actually leaning towards your response Rock, but I may give it a try
anyway, and if nothing else, I can restore the image if I get jammed up I
suppose. Not really much on it yet, so nothing to lose but about 2 hours of
time....

Thank you very much for your time though, I do appreciate it!

Doug
 
Alright, thanks Rock..... I actually called Toshiba and they informed me
that it "should work", but I don't have a lot of confidence in the guy
that directed me. He acted like Joe Blow, with an "I don't know" attitude
pretty much.
I'm actually leaning towards your response Rock, but I may give it a try
anyway, and if nothing else, I can restore the image if I get jammed up I
suppose. Not really much on it yet, so nothing to lose but about 2 hours
of time....

Thank you very much for your time though, I do appreciate it!
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You're welcome, Doug. If remember, could you post back and let us know if
the laptop key worked? Good luck.
 
The key did in fact work surprisingly enough! BUT, (always a but), the
restore/drivers disk, was for 3 different model of PC's on 1 set of CD's....
I downloaded the specs for my laptop with the hardware info, but I couldn't
get a couple of things to work, AND my drive letter assignments were all
off. CD-ROM was L:\, HDD was F:\, and so on. I could tell it was going to
be a time consuming headache, so I have a restore going on right now. lol

Uninstall all the Crapware manually, and get www.ccleaner.com and ntregopt
ready to go I guess.

But at least I do know now that it will work, for future reference.

Thanks again for all the info and help!

Doug
 
Doug said:
The key did in fact work surprisingly enough! BUT, (always a but), the
restore/drivers disk, was for 3 different model of PC's on 1 set of
CD's.... I downloaded the specs for my laptop with the hardware info, but
I couldn't get a couple of things to work, AND my drive letter assignments
were all off. CD-ROM was L:\, HDD was F:\, and so on. I could tell it
was going to be a time consuming headache, so I have a restore going on
right now. lol

Uninstall all the Crapware manually, and get www.ccleaner.com and ntregopt
ready to go I guess.

But at least I do know now that it will work, for future reference.

Thanks again for all the info and help!
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Cool, and the tech gave you the right info too.
 
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