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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Saturday, October 15, 2005 at 6:27 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cat
(1 messages posted)
How did you ??
>edited the OEM XP disk and installed it on my old computer. Which is not a Dell.
Thank you,
On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 2:16 am, 666 wrote:
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>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
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>Nope. Phoning home would be detected by any firewall that monitors outgoing traffic.
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>OEM (...) I've never been able to successfully "clean" such a disk back to the
>MS generic product
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>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
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