Activation Code... Let Me See...

[Wingsboy]

Do I have this right?

I just bought XP Home installed it registered and Activated it.

Now I cannot install it on my laptop and if I should need to format my hard drive I'll be SOL because I have already Activated It.

Is this right?

Do I need to buy another one to install on my laptop?

And what if something happens to my PC?

Will I need to buy another if I have to reinstall?

Sounds Like Crap.

When I bought 95 98 and ME I installed them on both my machines.

Several times when my kids were learning the computer.:eek: :mad: :cry

[XPerties]

Heres the trick...technially you cant, thats what M$ says but if your like thousands of others....p*** on them. So this is what you do as far as your laptop.

Install XP Home and when it goes and activates itself it may work, if not it will give you a choice to call in. Call the 800 number and some dumass will answer. Simply say "I installed XP on my PC and then I had a hard drive crash. I went and bought a new hard drive and also did another upgrade on my PC, Just got done installing it and it wont activate...why?" ...She will ask for the on screen display numbers and you read them to her/him. There will be about 50 numbers, in return she/he will read you a activation code which you will enter and then your done.

Trust me its a pain in the a** and I feel that if you own the software you should be able to install it on any PC you own, regardless if you own 20 PC's.

Now your home PC is no big deal. When you first activated it there was a numerical number that tells MS whats on your system. It doesnt say exzactly what type of hard ware but it will match anytime you reinstall XP on it. I have formatted and reinstall XP retail at least 4 times since Oct. 25 and have never had to call them for my main PC. Now several, if not dozen of people have install XP on a second PC and they didnt have to call in but it may happen and thats the simpliest thing to say to them. You wont have a promblem except spending your time talking to them. Good luck

-XPerties

[LS_Dragons]

Yes - you have it pretty close to 'right'. According to what I have heard, though, you should be able to install on your laptop and activate via telephone. M$ phone people are supposed to be very easy on approving at this point in the OS lifecycle. Just tell them that after you installed and activated everything went to hell on your system and you ended up reformatting and reinstalling. You will be able to follow the same process if you happen to screw something up so badly on wither system that a re-install is required - but again, they should be pretty easy about it. A suggestion -- invest in a product like Norton/Symantec Ghost and once you have a perfect install with EVERYTHING working just how you like it on both systems - make a Ghost Image. You will be able to restore the ghost image rather than reformat and re-install should something go balls up.

Lance

[Wingsboy]

Thanks a lot. I do appreciate the advice.

[FthrJACK]

sorry your wrong folks

you can install XP on your laptop, and desktop pc, just so long as you dont use them both at the same time, say -- you on one pc and a friend on your laptop.. thats a breach of your licence.

its the same thing with WORD.

:assshake :spaced

[LS_Dragons]

Well.....you can install XP on as many systems as you want with the right iso file - can't you?

[LS_Dragons]

...... for evaluation purposes only - of course

[zErO]

If u've installed xp on both u can activate one of them by trying this

Give this ago if u want to reactivate an xp install

The only workaround to reactivating your system is to perform the following steps:

1)Start your Windows installation in Minimal Safe mode.

2)Move to the %systemroot%system32 folder.

3)Rename wpa.dbl to wpa.noact.

4)Rename wpa.bak to wpa.dbl.

5)Reboot your system as normal.

The above procedure will work only if you've made no significant hardware changes

[XPerties]

[b:66d1b81444]FthrJACK[/b:66d1b81444] - sorry bud but you be the wrong one. As i said before a code is sent out during activation. When you try to activate another OS it will send that info to M$ AND if it doesnt match then it wont activate. Not using them at the same time does nothin but iratate you.

-XPerties

[MSNwar]

The Home Edition EULA does not allow you to install on a laptop/mobile computer. (Correction/Edit: The home edition does not allow you to install a single license EULA on more than one PC, i.e. your desktop and laptop.)

The Professional Edition EULA does!

OEM Editions do not.

Visit M$ and see the Piracy FAQs.

http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/mpafaq.asp

Activation Policies

How many installations can be made with one product license? Has this changed with the introduction of Product Activation?

The End-User License Agreement (EULA) for many Microsoft application software products contains the following sentence: "The primary user of the computer on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is installed may make a second copy for his or her exclusive use on a portable computer." If your EULA contains this sentence, then, subject to the conditions mentioned, you may make a second copy of the software. Note that you must be the primary user of the computer on which the software is installed. The primary user is the individual who uses the computer most of the time it is in use. Only that individual is entitled to use the second copy. Furthermore, the software must be installed on the local hard disk of your computer; you are not entitled to make and use a second copy on your portable computer if you run the primary copy of the software from a network server. Finally, only one secondary copy may be made; you may install this copy on more than one portable computer.

Please note that many Microsoft products are copy protected and it will not be technically possible to make a second copy of the disk. If you are a Licensee of software that includes copy protection technology, please call the Product Support Services number provided for that specific product to learn whether or not unencrypted disks can be obtained.

Does Microsoft Product Activation allow customers to install products on a laptop as well as on a PC?

Consumers should refer to the terms of the product’s End User License Agreement. In some cases, the Microsoft EULA allows customers who are the primary user of Microsoft applications such as Office and Word to install one additional copy on their laptop computer for their exclusive use. This does not apply to product licenses acquired with the purchase of a PC. These OEM licenses are single-use licenses that cannot be transferred to another PC.

MSNwar - The Fat Man

[Aaron]

Please note that many Microsoft products are copy protected and it will not be technically possible to make a second copy of the disk.[/quote:b453f2bafe]

I didn't know the XP discs were copy protected!

Could someone run a ClonyXL scan on a bought retail Home or Pro XP CD and tell me the results?

[XPerties]

Its not AaronXP.....I made a copy of retail using Clone CD and the person installed it using my code and everything went perfect.

-XPerties

[MSNwar]

My own retail pro edition is not copy protected either.

Matter of fact, I cannot remember ever have seeing a copy protected disc.

Anyone?

MSN - The Fat man

[Aaron]

Its not AaronXP.....I made a copy of retail using Clone CD and the person installed it using my code and everything went perfect.-XPerties [/quote:566072e940]

erm... That is what CloneCD is for - bypassing copy protections to make a perfect 1:1 copy. That still doesn't tell us whether the XP CD is copy protected or not.

The fact that you're using CloneCD makes out that you think the cd is protected and you want to bypass it. Now try with a simple burning program such as Nero/Easy CD Creator 5/CDRwin or something and tell me if it can make a 1:1 cd copy. Or just run a ClonyXL Scan on it!!!

[MSNwar]

I used NERO to copy my retail xp pro.

I copied the CD to the hard disk and then burned it to a CDR disc.

MSN