re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' Monday, February 21, 2005 at 2:16 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by 666 (2255 messages posted) I believe that I've heard that every once in a while XP' WPA (and other activated products, like Office XP/2003 and development apps) phone home to make sure all is well Nope. Phoning home would be detected by any firewall that monitors outgoing traffic. OEM (...) I've never been able to successfully "clean" such a disk back to the MS generic product I have a Dell desktop and a Dell laptop. Both came with XP OEM disks (Dell doesn't sell clean computers, they force you to buy XP). I installed Linux on the Dell desktop, edited the OEM XP disk and installed it on my old computer. Which is not a Dell. No problem at all. Activation worked, too. OEM licenses are a dirty trick to stop people from recycling their software when they replace their computers. Violating OEM licenses is an acceptable form of civil disobedience. There should be a law against the OEM scam, similar to the law that prohibits printer manufacturers to stop you from recycling their ink cartridges. Written in response to: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (lmc: Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 12:54 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 7:29 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Cat: Saturday, October 15, 2005 at 6:27 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (lmc: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 12:54 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Steve: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 1:27 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (triplate: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 2:52 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (jazzman: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 2:55 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (triplate: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 2:56 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (jazzman: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 2:57 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Steve: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 3:01 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (jazzman: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 3:06 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (lmc: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 3:30 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (jazzman: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 3:44 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 6:50 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (kroeg: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 7:18 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 7:39 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (kroeg: Mon, Feb 21, 2005, 4:24 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (lmc: Mon, Feb 21, 2005, 5:18 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 22, 2005, 7:32 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (666: Mon, Feb 21, 2005, 2:16 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Feb 22, 2005, 7:29 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (666: Tue, Feb 22, 2005, 8:01 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Cat: Sat, Oct 15, 2005, 6:27 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum