Installing XP on old PC

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Am I pirating?

I bought a new dell about a year ago. I thought it was a
great deal, but it simply doesn't have enough memory. I
also just bought a new PC for my office, so I have taken
the old one home to replce the one that doesn't have
enough memory. To clean out the old office computer, I
reinstalled the XP Home edition that came with my Dell.
NOw I can't seem to register it. Am I inadvertantly
pirating software that I really paid to have with my PC
that I am scrapping? Is there any way around this.
 
Preinstalled OEM versions of Windows XP cannot
be transferred to a different PC. End of Subject.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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|I bought a new dell about a year ago. I thought it was a
| great deal, but it simply doesn't have enough memory. I
| also just bought a new PC for my office, so I have taken
| the old one home to replce the one that doesn't have
| enough memory. To clean out the old office computer, I
| reinstalled the XP Home edition that came with my Dell.
| NOw I can't seem to register it. Am I inadvertantly
| pirating software that I really paid to have with my PC
| that I am scrapping? Is there any way around this.
 
The version of Windows XP you have on your Dell is an OEM version. It is
tied to the Dell and you can't install it on other systems. Why don't you
just buy more RAM for your old Dell? You can buy it from dozens of online
vendors, and cheaper than getting it from Dell.
 
I bought a new dell about a year ago. I thought it was a
great deal, but it simply doesn't have enough memory. I
also just bought a new PC for my office, so I have taken
the old one home to replce the one that doesn't have
enough memory. To clean out the old office computer, I
reinstalled the XP Home edition that came with my Dell.
NOw I can't seem to register it. Am I inadvertantly
pirating software that I really paid to have with my PC
that I am scrapping? Is there any way around this.
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Well, everyonee addressed yuor operating system problem. Me? I just
want to ask why you just don't add more RAM
memery to your computer you bought a year ago? It's going to be
cheaper than buying a legal copy of Windows XP....

....D.
 
Am said:
I bought a new dell about a year ago. I thought it was a
great deal, but it simply doesn't have enough memory. I
also just bought a new PC for my office, so I have taken
the old one home to replce the one that doesn't have
enough memory. To clean out the old office computer, I
reinstalled the XP Home edition that came with my Dell.
NOw I can't seem to register it. Am I inadvertantly
pirating software that I really paid to have with my PC
that I am scrapping? Is there any way around this.
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You didn't pay for it - not nearly as much as even a generic off the shelf
OEM licence. I have a system here with XP Pro - it's a generic OEM and I
paid £95. The Pro licence that comes with a Dell probably costs between 1
and 5% of the purchase price. An OEM Home licence was £59 (so, unless your
system cost around £10,000, which it obviously didn't or you wouldn't be
asking the question, you didn't pay anything hardly). If your system cost
£500, say, the OS probably cost you between a fiver and £25, i.e. peanuts.
 
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Am I pirating? said:
I bought a new dell about a year ago. I thought it was a
great deal, but it simply doesn't have enough memory.
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So why not add memory to it? Memory is cheap and easy to add.

I
also just bought a new PC for my office, so I have taken
the old one home to replce the one that doesn't have
enough memory. To clean out the old office computer, I
reinstalled the XP Home edition that came with my Dell.
NOw I can't seem to register it. Am I inadvertantly
pirating software that I really paid to have with my PC
that I am scrapping? Is there any way around this.
Click to expand...


You are not permitted to do this. The licence for an OEM version
(which is what you have) ties it permanently to the first
computer it's installed on; it can never be moved to another
machine.
 
Am said:
I bought a new dell about a year ago. I thought it was a
great deal, but it simply doesn't have enough memory. I
also just bought a new PC for my office, so I have taken
the old one home to replce the one that doesn't have
enough memory. To clean out the old office computer, I
reinstalled the XP Home edition that came with my Dell.
NOw I can't seem to register it. Am I inadvertantly
pirating software that I really paid to have with my PC
that I am scrapping? Is there any way around this.
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Go to these links below and read or skim them, then make up your own
mind how YOU are going to fairly use YOUR fairly purchased COPY of XP in
the privacy of your own home instead of letting a greedy, criminal
corporation decide for you.

http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/
http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/


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hermes
DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://anti-dmca.org/
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php

Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
 
hermes said:
Go to these links below and read or skim them, then make up your own
mind how YOU are going to fairly use YOUR fairly purchased COPY of XP
in the privacy of your own home instead of letting a greedy, criminal
corporation decide for you.

http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/
http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/
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Oh look! It's Kurt's Krony! Look you SMFW, HE DID NOT PAY FOR THAT COPY!!!
Dell provide a BIOS-locked recovery disc. How is it MS's fault if *DELL*
choose not to provide a full disc and BIOS lock it?! *MICROSOFT* isn't
dictating anything in this instance - *DELL* is. Now STFU.
 
Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, Miss Putrid Prick
typed:
Oh look! It's Kurt's Krony! Look you SMFW, HE DID NOT PAY FOR THAT COPY!!!
Dell provide a BIOS-locked recovery disc. How is it MS's fault if *DELL*
choose not to provide a full disc and BIOS lock it?! *MICROSOFT* isn't
dictating anything in this instance - *DELL* is. Now STFU.
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ROFL! I'm being called a "krony" by one of the more obscene, sexually
repressed Microbrains in the msnewsgroups! Bwahahahahaha! Please carry
on, you provide good, funny entertainment when you do.

OK, so you claim that the OP "did not pay for that copy" of XP. Of course
he didn't pay for it, Dell provided it out of the kindness of their
corporate heart, right?!? It couldn't possibly be that he paid for a
computer from Dell, some of the $ which paid for the copy of XP, right?!?
Secondly, when did I ever say that it is "MS's fault if *DELL* choose not
to provide a full disc and BIOS lock it"? When I spoke of "a greedy,
criminal corporation", I am referring to how M$ tries to dictate how an
end user may use an OEM copy of XP in the privacy of their own home which
has nothing to do with the type of copy the OP purchased from Dell. Does
the weak, rotted single cell you call your brain get it yet?

--
hermes
DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://anti-dmca.org/
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php

Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
 
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And, That makes it OK for the unsuspecting purchaser to
have to throw away something he thought he had? It
isn't what was PAID that is at issue in these
situations: It's what hs to BE PAID that is an unfair,
bait & switched covert scam pulled on the people buying
the crap. It sucks as a dea.

Aren't you the same bunky awhile back that said I'd
have to go to Gateway if I lost and OXP disk, aren't
you? I am happy to tell you that you were absolutely,
completely and totally WRONG that I had to go to
Gateway for a replacement XP disk!!
I discussed this with both Gateway AND Microsoft,
via phone AND by email, and got the SAME answer both
times. If, say, I screw up the Phone Tools disk, I go
to Gateway. If it's one of the XP disks, or Office XP
disk, THEN I take it to Microsoft. I kind of figured
things were coming from the horse's ass when I saw your
tripish un-sphinctered comments, so I went to the other
end: the horse's mouth.
It always amazes me how closed and arrogant some
minds can be about things, especially when they let
loose their stewish spew without controls. Maybe
you're just ignorant, I don't know. But you're sure
not much of a person to be helping people.

Pop
 
Well, in different terms I have a strong tendancy to
agree with you in many ways. It's the misleading
advertising and lack of disclosure that really bothers
me about those things. If people KNEW at the time of
purchase, I would feel differently.
Pop
 
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Oh, yes, he DID pay for that copy! You admitted same
in your previous comments, as a matter of fact, or
don't you keep track of what emanates from your
spewhole? The PROBLEM, you MFTOAC, is misleading and
fraudulent advertising/disclosure on the part of the
sellers of those machines. Can YOU say stupid? Well,
I can!
You got a hair up it 'cause you paid full price or
something? Jeez, go get yourself something to scratc
it with!
Pop
 
D. said:
Well, everyonee addressed yuor operating system problem. Me? I just
want to ask why you just don't add more RAM
memery to your computer you bought a year ago? It's going to be
cheaper than buying a legal copy of Windows XP....

...D.
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Whoops.. obviously forgot to spell check...

....D.
 
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