Tiger wrote:


I totally understand piracy rules and the like (we buy all
of our programs), but I thought that Windows XP was like
old versions of Windows in that you could use it at home
on several computers.

Not - they were not like that either. You have *always* had to have
individual copies of windows for each machine. And it is precisely
because so many people were thinking as you were that the activation
system was brought in. You will either have to get hold of the Product
Key that was used for the installation on the old machine, which is
probably transferable, or get a new copy. The key is 25 alpha-numeric
characters in five groups of five and should have been supplied to you.
Look for a label on the back.

Mind you a tech may have used an OEM copy, licensed solely to the
machine where first installed anyway

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)