[OT]Stupid XP question-

[txrocco@sbcglobal.net (Patrick Bureau)]

I have Xp pro on 3 computers at home, no problems so
far, been a year or so.


--- Dan Smith <sad_rocc@veedub.com> wrote:
> The registration key. XP (at least Pro, I assume the
> same is for Home) knows how many times the key has
> been used and will only let you use it once. If you
> do manage to get by that, you have to activate XP
> online, which send your reg. key to their database
> and checks it, making it so your copy won't be
> activated. This means after 30 or 45 days, you're OS
> is pretty much useless. I haven't used NT, but no
> other Windows OS does this. Unless you want to buy
> another copy or find some way around it (cracks can
> be found I believe) I can probably put win2k pro up
> on an ftp for you.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Alright, I have one copy of windows XP and two
> computers under the same roof.  I know you're
> supposed to have one XP copy per computer, what is
> to prevent me from installing it on both?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 
> From: Robbie Cotner <robw_z@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [OT]Stupid XP question-
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:12:03 -0800 (PST)
> 
> 
> Alright, I have one copy of windows XP and two
> computers under the same roof.  I know you're
> supposed to have one XP copy per computer, what is
> to prevent me from installing it on both?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
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