XP Activation

[Rick Hanson]

After installing XP Home edition for the first time I have 30 days to
activate. Can I make as many hardware changes as I want prior to activation
without the "votes" changing?
Thanks,
Rick Hanson

[Jack]

why didn't you make those changes BEFORE installing
XP.....sssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


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[Rob]

"Rick Hanson" > wrote in message
...
| After installing XP Home edition for the first time I have 30 days to
| activate. Can I make as many hardware changes as I want prior to
activation
| without the "votes" changing?
| Thanks,
| Rick Hanson

Hi Rick,
Please expand on what you refer to as,'hardware changes', and 'votes'
Rob.

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

Although I don't really understand exactly what you are asking, you can
always call MS if you need to reactivate. As long as you are legitimate
customer they will generally have no problem letting you reactivate if you
make too many hardware changes. Activation is really designed to prevent
you from giving your cd and key to all your friends, NOT to prevent you from
making hardware changes. They usually give you the benefit of the doubt.

(I don't speak for Microsoft, but I'm just relaying my experiences with
product activation.)


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Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP
Windows Printing/Imaging/Hardware



"Rick Hanson" > wrote in message
...
> After installing XP Home edition for the first time I have 30 days to
> activate. Can I make as many hardware changes as I want prior to
activation
> without the "votes" changing?
> Thanks,
> Rick Hanson
>
>

[JayVeeCee]

He was asking if he could make hardware changes. He did not say he already did it.

Anyway, I don't see why he can't. But the question is, will it make any difference if he did the changes before or after.

[Ron Martell]

Roger Neilson > wrote:

>the continuance of a long and involved problem...hopefully now solved.
>
>I won't go into details but my son, living in another part of the
>country 'needed' to install XP to allow a peripheral to run. The
>install completely screwed up his internet and he then found he didn't
>actually 'need' XP to run the peripheral after all. He therefore has a
>copy of XP which he has installed once and has now uninstalled and
>gone back to Me...his choice not mine. As he has not actually
>activated XP what is its status in terms of what he can do with it?
>Can he return it to the shop (unlikely) or sell it as an unactivated
>copy? He otherwise is stuck with an O/S he won't use at all.
>
>I emphasise it is a legitimate bought version from PC World, and he
>has not activated it.
>
>Thanks for any advice for him.
>
>Roger

A retail copy of Windows XP is licensed to the purchaser and may be
legitimately sold or transferred to another person *provided* that the
copy is no longer installed on a computer.

If he sells it he should give the purchaser a letter confirming that:
a: he was the original purchaser of the copy, identifying the store
and date of purchase.
b: the copy has been completely removed from the computer that it was
installed on, and that computer is now running a different version of
Windows.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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[D.Currie]

"Roger Neilson" > wrote in message
...
> the continuance of a long and involved problem...hopefully now solved.
>
> I won't go into details but my son, living in another part of the
> country 'needed' to install XP to allow a peripheral to run. The
> install completely screwed up his internet and he then found he didn't
> actually 'need' XP to run the peripheral after all. He therefore has a
> copy of XP which he has installed once and has now uninstalled and
> gone back to Me...his choice not mine. As he has not actually
> activated XP what is its status in terms of what he can do with it?
> Can he return it to the shop (unlikely) or sell it as an unactivated
> copy? He otherwise is stuck with an O/S he won't use at all.
>
> I emphasise it is a legitimate bought version from PC World, and he
> has not activated it.
>
> Thanks for any advice for him.
>
> Roger

I doubt the store would take it back, simply because they would have no way
of knowing whether a customer had copied the CD and written down the CD Key
and/or activated the software. If they took it back, they could end up
selling software that was already being used, and then they'd be getting
grief for that when the second customer tried to activate and found out that
the number was already being used multiple times.

However, he should have no problem selling it to someone else.