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January 6th 04, 07:10 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>on my assambled computer (amd xp on a asus mother board)
i personaly installed xp home.
>now when i went to the microsoft support site and filled
the "pid" it shows my xp as a oem version.
>now wat??
>.
>1 get a job
2 clean your room
3 eat all your vegetables
4 why dont you post a meaningful message that contains a
problem with windows rather than useless drivel?

Michael Stevens
January 6th 04, 07:10 PM
gaps wrote:
> on my assambled computer (amd xp on a asus mother board) i personaly
> installed xp home.
> now when i went to the microsoft support site and filled the "pid" it
> shows my xp as a oem version. now wat??

Did the XP Home version you used come in a green box, or was it in a
shrink-wrap?
If it came in a box, it should not be giving the OEM pid. If it was in the
shrink-wrap, it was a OEM version.
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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP

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