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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 4:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by kroeg
(2 messages posted)
This doesn't make sense to me. If I wasn't online how would xp activate and know
it wasn't on the same computer? What if I don't need XP on my laptop but want it
on my home computer? I have to buy it again? That doesn't seem right. Can't I use
it for personal use on wichever system I choose? I paid for it, when I bought the
laptop because that's what it came with, now if I try to use it to upgrade my home
system instead I can't legally do so?
On Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 7:39 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>After XP is installed and activated on computer A, it can be installed per se on
>computer B but most likely the activation process will fail. After all, the purpose
>of activation is to enforce the retail End User License Agreement (EULA) which (at
>least in the USA) states that XP is only licensed to the End User to be run on one
>computer at a time.
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>Once activation fails, the second installation of XP becomes operable only to the
>extent that it will start and run for the purpose of conducting the activation procedure
>and nothing else. If you were to purchase another copy of XP, you would be able
>to activate computer B's installation with the product key obtained with the second
>purchased copy, as long as the second is the same "flavor" (ie, Home Full, Home
Upgd,
>Pro Full, Pro Upgd) as the first.
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>The activation "freeze out" period is 120 days on the retail and OEM copies of XP
>that I have used, which means that 120 days must elapse between the activation of
>the copy (as represented by the product key) installed on computer A and the activation
>of the same product key on computer B. You will still be in violation of the EULA.
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