On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:19:02 -0800, SDUSER
<SDUSER@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
You're welcome. Glad to help.
> It is a retail version.
Good, then you're free to move it as often as you like.
> I just installed it today
> on the older computer. I haven't registered it yet.
Registration is completely optional and has no value to you; it's
strictly for Microsoft's marketing purposes. You probably mean that
you haven't *activated* it yet.
> I just figured out how
> to get the network card to seat in the newer computer. What I thought was a
> hard drive enclosure for a second hard drive on the newer computer was
> actually an enclosure for expansion slots for network cards.
That statement confuses me, and I'm not sure what you're describing,
but it shouldn't make any difference.
> If I get a
> network card that works on the newer computer and simply uninstall Windows XP
> on the older computer can I install it on the newer computer without going
> through any other hoops?
Yes. As I said, as long as it's a retail version you can move it from
computer to computer to computer as often as you need or want to.
Worst case, if you try to activate it on a new computer and it's been
fewer than 120 days since the last activation, internet activation
won't work, and you'll be prompted to do it by a quick and easy voice
call to an 800 number. But that should be no problem.
And in your case, since you haven't activated it at all yet, and
you'll move it before activation, it should activate over the internet
without a problem.
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:49:00 -0800, SDUSER
> > <SDUSER@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I just purchased a Windows XP Home edition. I have an older clunky computer
> > > which is internet ready and newer better computer which is not. The IDE
> > > slots on the newer computer are too close to the hard drive enclosure to
> > > install the modem from the older computer so I need to buy a PCI network
> > > interface card. Anyway - I was hoping to install XP on the older computer
> > > until I get the newer computer internet ready and then install XP on the
> > > newer one. Is that possible to do that or does Microsoft prevent that from
> > > happening.
> >
> >
> > The answer is that it depends.
> >
> > Did you buy an OEM version or a retail version? If it's a retail
> > version, there's no problem. You may freely move it from computer to
> > computer as long as it's not installed on two computers at once.
> >
> > But if it's an OEM version, its license ties it permanently to the
> > first computer it's installed on. It can never legally be moved to
> > another computer, sold, or given away. That's the single biggest
> > disadvantage of an OEM version, and the reason I almost always
> > recommend against buying them.
> >
> >
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