XP Home license changes hands

Greetings --

As long as she has removed the OS from her computer, and given you
the CD, the Certificate of Authenticity, and any other documentation,
you should be good to go. If it's been less than 120 days since she
last activated that specific Product Key, you may have to activate via
telephone: a painless, 5-minute call, normally.

Bruce Chambers

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"Smandolo3" <scott_d_morse@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:068c01c34a21$91afa750$a001280a@phx.gbl...

>
> A friend purchased Win XP Home Edition. When chunks of
> her system had trouble operating (drivers etc.), she
> decided she did not want to use XP and rolled her OS back
> to 98.
>
> (She probably should have tried to get her money back, but
> that's her business I suppose.)
>
> She made a gift to me of the disks. Am I legally good to
> use them? Will MS' stop-thief measures create a hassle?
>
> Smandolo3