[ale] OT: Windows XP media?

Jeffrey B. Layton laytonjb at charter.net
Mon May 19 11:08:03 EDT 2008


Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 08:27 -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
>   
>> So I have an XP product key, but I'm looking for XP media for
>> installing. Any ideas?
>>     
>
> You will need to find media which matches your purpose.  If the product
> key that you have is OEM, though, it's not even worth it: you must not
> move an OEM licensed copy of Windows from one system to another.  (Is
> that not the most retarded rule you've ever heard of?  What is up with
> that crazy proprietary stuff, anyway?)
>
> So, then, you just need to match up your release (XP Home, or XP Pro, or
> whatever other versions they have of XP, I can't recall) and your
> license style (Retail is the only one that lets you transfer the license
> from machine to machine, so that shouldn't be too terribly hard).  If
> you insist on transferring an OEM copy, good luck---Microsoft will
> likely deny its activation on anything but the computer it shipped with.
> Also, if it's OEM, the only thing you can do is find an OEM disc that
> will work with the manufacturer key that you have (different OEM discs
> recognize different subsets of the OEM product keyspace).
>   

Thanks for heads up. That goes to show you why I don't spend
much time on Windows :) 

Jeff



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