Alias wrote:
"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" wrote in
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"CWatters" wrote in message
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I might be wrong but I believe the official view is no. Once an OEM
copy has
been activated on one PC you can't reactivate it on another.

However I believe you get 30 days to activate an installation so you
could
always install it for 30 days and then move it to another PC. Just
don't activate it by accident when if prompts you.


Activation is not related the use of the license in this case.
Once you install the OEM software to the PC it may not be moved to
another irrespective of if you activated it or not.

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Regards,

Mike

All you have to do is keep the hard drive or case or RAM and you're
upgrading a computer and reinstalling windows on the updated
computer. If you buy all new parts or a completely new computer, you
are not supposed to reninstall it but you "may" and "can" do it
without problems if you wait 120 days after you first activated it
or, if like another poster said, you don't activate it on your yet to
be upgraded computer. MS says you shouldn't do it, although that has
never been decided in a court of law so, yes, if MS took you to
court, you *may* be found in breach of the EULA contract, a civil
offense without serious consequences. If you live in a civilized
country, the judge will throw the breach of contract suit out as
frivolous as has been proven in Spain and other countries time and
time again.

Since MS doesn't define what a new different computer is as opposed to
an upgraded one, just move a case screw from the old computer to the new
one.

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