There's Windows Home OEM media floating around on the net. Get on one of the torrent sites and download it. As long as it's a OEM version of Home it should accept the key off the computer. As well you shouldn't. This type of discussion is not allowed here. I wasn't condoning pirating software. I just suggested downloading the media. But obviously in uptight Microsoft land torrents aren't a means of distributing media. Guess ya better call HP. <rolleyes> <cough download linux>