[OT]Stupid XP question-

[sad_rocc@veedub.com (Dan Smith)]

Hrm, odd. I had 2 copies, the full and the update. Put one on my girlfriend's, one on a comp I built for someone and when I tried both on my dad's computer it said no.

Dan

--- Patrick Bureau <txrocco@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>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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