How to activate Windows XP on more than one PC Legally


	How to activate Windows XP on more than one PC Legally

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5-5-2007 5:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad3f04d1-5cb4-4ac9-958d-bff73e9d706c/D2CD1AF3-01C5-465F-AB69-80710C23918E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://electrogeek.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-activate-windows-xp-on-more-than-one-pc-legally/" href="http://electrogeek.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-activate-windows-xp-on-more-than-one-pc-legally/" style="font-size: 11px;">electrogeek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://electrogeek.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-activate-windows-xp-on-more-than-one-pc-legally/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/electrogeek.com/img/F609249A-77CC-49CF-9913-451317501BC0" alt="How to activate Windows XP on more than one PC Legally" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://electrogeek.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-activate-windows-xp-on-more-than-one-pc-legally/"><P>Recently a client of mine had a copy of Windows XP which was installed previously. When attempting to re-install again on a different PC the installation obviously needed to be activated. Uh Oh! Online activation failed. What to do? I’ll tell you.So your hard drive crashed and you had to reload Windows XP. No big deal right. Just activate it again online. Well if it had been activated too many times before and this is a new PC you’re just plain out of luck. Right? Wrong!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://electrogeek.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-activate-windows-xp-on-more-than-one-pc-legally/"><P>Microsoft states that,”<STRONG>Activations on the same PC using the same product key are unlimited.</STRONG>” We’ll that’s just great but what if you bought a new PC because your old one died?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://electrogeek.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-activate-windows-xp-on-more-than-one-pc-legally/">Here is the answer we all have been waiting for: CALL MICROSOFT. What the hell? That’s your answer you say? Yes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://electrogeek.com/blog/2007/04/25/how-to-activate-windows-xp-on-more-than-one-pc-legally/">Essentially Microsoft allowed me to activate a customers copy of Windows XP on a completely different PC after multiple previous activations</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D2CD1AF3-01C5-465F-AB69-80710C23918E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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