re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 7:26 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7097 messages posted) Look on the bottom of the laptop for a Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity. Whatever edition of XP is described on the COA is the edition of XP that the laptop is licensed to run. Apparently IBM's charges to replace Recovery CDs are greater than the industry average. Regardless of what the school had installed on the laptop, blanket statements about what edition of XP you are entitled to use on the laptop are pure guesswork until you know what the school's licesning agreement is with MS. There is just as much of a chance that the edition of XP the school installed is properly licensed to be included with the sale of the laptop as it isn not to be included with the sale of the laptop----MS's agreements with schools are very specific to that individual school. Written in response to: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Fiona: Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 1:24 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Fiona: Thu, Jun 15, 2006, 1:24 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (CITechnologies: Thu, Jun 15, 2006, 2:18 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (KeithT: Thu, Jun 15, 2006, 3:59 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (CITechnologies: Thu, Jun 15, 2006, 4:05 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Rich Kurtz: Thu, Jun 15, 2006, 3:44 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Thu, Jun 15, 2006, 7:26 pm) 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