RC> A. He was saying he has a less than legal copy of Win2k.

That should not be a problem.
I can update my legal XP without having it regitsred by Microsoft.

 RC> with this much of a hardware change, I did not have to
"re-activate".

As far as I know there is 2 versions of XP and it is only the OEM you have to
re-activate. The original XP that followd my 2 COMPAQ did not have to be activated
at all.

//Bjorn

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