Brennan Blair
December 9th 03, 11:07 AM
Unless they bought you more than one license for this
version of Windows, it can only be used on one machine.
If there is a problem with registeration on windows on
that machine then just call microsft to activate windows
and tell them what happened and they will give you a key
to activate windows on your other machine. Remember, you
can only use one cd (unless multilicensed, which is
doubtful) on one machine at a time.
>-----Original Message-----
>My office bought me a retail boxed copy of xp
professional
>upgrade and installed it on my laptop which previously
had
>windows 2000 (i think). For unrelated reasons, the
laptop
>selfdestructed and is permanently out of service. I
asked
>our computer support folks to install my xp pro on my
>desktop pc, which previously ran NT. The installation
went
>fine, but the technician apparently had some problems
>with the activation. Now the head of our computer staff
>insists that the licensing terms of my xp software say
it
>cannot be reused on a different machine even though the
>original machine is defunct. This position appears to
>conflict with microsoft faqs I just read. I even thought
>it said I could have the xp software on both my pc
desktop
>and a laptop? Is our computer guy right? If not, what
>should I do in terms of working with microsoft? Please
>help!
>.
>
version of Windows, it can only be used on one machine.
If there is a problem with registeration on windows on
that machine then just call microsft to activate windows
and tell them what happened and they will give you a key
to activate windows on your other machine. Remember, you
can only use one cd (unless multilicensed, which is
doubtful) on one machine at a time.
>-----Original Message-----
>My office bought me a retail boxed copy of xp
professional
>upgrade and installed it on my laptop which previously
had
>windows 2000 (i think). For unrelated reasons, the
laptop
>selfdestructed and is permanently out of service. I
asked
>our computer support folks to install my xp pro on my
>desktop pc, which previously ran NT. The installation
went
>fine, but the technician apparently had some problems
>with the activation. Now the head of our computer staff
>insists that the licensing terms of my xp software say
it
>cannot be reused on a different machine even though the
>original machine is defunct. This position appears to
>conflict with microsoft faqs I just read. I even thought
>it said I could have the xp software on both my pc
desktop
>and a laptop? Is our computer guy right? If not, what
>should I do in terms of working with microsoft? Please
>help!
>.
>