re: New laptop OS?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gary
(776 messages posted)
yes its a full retail lic. so i can install it on my vista? i understand i mite have
to download some drives. is this correct.with your wisdom would this be smart. whats
the pro and cons doing this?thanks
On Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 2:04 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>"i brought xp pro installed on windows me" sort of implies that you bought a retail
>upgrade of XP Pro and installed it on a computer that had Windows Me.
>
>If that's correct, then when the originally-Me-now-XP-Pro computer is retired/junked,
>the XP Pro upgrade (since it is a retail license) can be moved to another computer---but,
>because it is an upgrade license, it has to be installed on a computer that has
a
>genuine Windows OS that can be upgraded to XP Pro, such as another Me computer,
a
>W2K Pro computer, or an XP Home computer.
>
>If the XP Pro in question is a *full* retail license, then it can be moved to any
>other computer without any conditions, other than of course it can only be installed
>and activated on one computer at a time. You could use a full retail license for
>XP on a Vista computer if you wanted to run XP instead of Vista.
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