From: "Rich Gauszka" 

  On C. I did a mb change and XP wouldn't boot up properly. Rather then
wasting time attempting a repair I wiped out the  partition, reinstalled XP
( oem version ) and re-registered. The registration process went without a
problem.

John O ( I think) recently  mentioned some issue where if on boot  XP
determines some significant change and you don't re-register at that time
and subsequently reboot you may be stuck with a voice phone call to MS to
complete the registration process .

As for E, I own two copies of XP oem and the only difference I noticed were
that the oem copies were cheaper


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:5093df.652be2{at}harborwebs.com...
> Dear All,
>
> Friday evening is rapidly approaching...
>
> Luckily....when I checked this morning my bittoorent d/l of Mdk10 is
nearly
> there so by this evening I may be able to tempt him with the latest &
greatest
> ...
>
> Never the less:
>
> Any answers to:
>
> Fact or Myth
>
> A) If you install the same copy of XP on 2 machines & XP realises (e.g.
via
> some sort of LAN traffic) it will turn off one of the machines/stop it
booting
> &/or will send a message to MS in some way.
>
> True or false?
>
> B) If you go to Winupdate, MS will "know" that you have the
same copy on 2
> machines & at that point MS will send a message to the machine which will
shut
> it down/ prevent it from rebooting or will send BSA stormtroopers around
to
> beat your children till you cough up the readies (cash to you yanks).
>
> True or false?
>
> C) That if you change hardware it will then check with MS &...yup you
guessed
> it...shut down the machine or prevent it from re-booting, send round the
BSA
> stormtroopers etc.
>
> True or false?
>
> D) That none of the above happen with Win2K.
>
> True or false?
>
> E) That XP OEM is different in it's behaviour wrt all this compared to XP
> "retail box set".
>
> True or false?
>
> F) Any other similar things wrt same XP copy on 2 machines?
>
>
> ?????
>
> Esp points A,B & C as they were the ones I rubbished the most.
>
> TIA
>
>
> Adam

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