One XP install on 2 PCs for < 30 days?

[Guest]

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I am upgrading to a newly built PC. I performed online activation of
Windows XP on my old PC about two years ago.

I have now also installed the same copy of XP on my new PC (as well as SP 2)
and I am in the 30 day period within which I must activate online or XP will
lock itself.

I want to transfer files from the old PC to the new PC and I am considering
using a null modem cable or a friend's home networking gear.

My question is, will XP allow me to set up a home network if both PCs have
the same install of XP on, as long as clearly, one PC is within the 30 day
grace period?

 

[Michael]

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Hi Jock

Should be no problem, your problem will be what do you do after 30 days? If
it was an oem version of xp then the license, as I understand it, only
allows it to be installed on the original pc it came with. I do not think it
is transferable.

Michael

"Jock" <nosp@m.org> wrote in message
news:cskr0v$6cj$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I am upgrading to a newly built PC. I performed online activation of
> Windows XP on my old PC about two years ago.
>
> I have now also installed the same copy of XP on my new PC (as well as SP
2)
> and I am in the 30 day period within which I must activate online or XP
will
> lock itself.
>
> I want to transfer files from the old PC to the new PC and I am
considering
> using a null modem cable or a friend's home networking gear.
>
> My question is, will XP allow me to set up a home network if both PCs have
> the same install of XP on, as long as clearly, one PC is within the 30 day
> grace period?
>
>
>
>