My understanding is that if you install the XP software
you have on your new machine it will not run when
you "activate" it. A call to MS support should resolve
the issue. MS realizes that people by new machines and
want to migrate their OS to them.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>we've purchased Windows XP Home upgrade from a store and
>installed it on a Pentium 233. The OS runs in fact worse
>off than it did when running Windows 98, even when it
>looked graphically the same, it had stability issues and
>it was not very comfortable to use. We have recently
>purchased a new computer and are wishing to install
>Windows XP onto it, for we are sure that it will run
much
>better. I was wondering if there is anyone I can contact
>within the corporation who would know how to de-license
a
>computer from Windows XP, since it is just now sitting
>uninstalled, doing nothing and the 98 is back up on the
>machine. Now if this can't be done, and I'm sure theres
>some kind of disagreement to this in the EULA, but
really
>its an old machine, it was 150 bucks (Canadian) and its
>now just sitting rendered useless due to a machine which
>can barely handle it. So I'm only hoping that this could
>be possible, and thank you for reading.
>
>Tyler
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