XP Home Retail and Activation, License Question

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Jason Priest

I have a pretty good computer without an OS on it. If I were to buy
the retail version of Windows XP Home, then later uninstalled it and
moved it to a newer system later, would it violate the license?
 
Jason said:
I have a pretty good computer without an OS on it. If I were to buy
the retail version of Windows XP Home, then later uninstalled it and
moved it to a newer system later, would it violate the license?
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No, it wouldn't. Retail licenses for WinXP are transferable.


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Jason Priest said:
I have a pretty good computer without an OS on it. If I
were to buy the retail version of Windows XP Home, then
later uninstalled it and moved it to a newer system later,
would it violate the license?
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As long as you remove the installation from the older computer,
you can move a retail version of Windows XP to another
computer. If it's been more than 120 days between activations,
you should be able to activate over the internet automatically.
If it's been less than 120 days, you'd probably have to use the
phone activation option which should take around 5 minutes. Be
prepared to explain that you are moving a retail version of XP
from one computer to another.

See section 13 of the EULA, Software Transfer, for more info:

MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION (RETAIL) END-USER LICENSE
AGREEMENT FOR MICROSOFT SOFTWARE
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/eula.mspx

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
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