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What upgrades can I do under XP?
What limitations are there in XP Home for system upgrades under their license? Can I upgrade memory from 1gb to 2gb without "re-registering"? Can I add additional hard drives or optical drives? Change out the video card? Add wireless? Change CPUs? I'd like to make a few upgrades, especially to memory, but I don't want to void the license or have to reinstall. |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
"Cal Vanize" wrote in message ... What limitations are there in XP Home for system upgrades under their license? Can I upgrade memory from 1gb to 2gb without "re-registering"? Can I add additional hard drives or optical drives? Change out the video card? Add wireless? Change CPUs? I'd like to make a few upgrades, especially to memory, but I don't want to void the license or have to reinstall. As long as you have a legal copy it's not an issue to re-register. It's done online rather seamlessly. No worries...unless you're illegal. |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
Bill wrote: Cal Vanize wrote: What limitations are there in XP Home for system upgrades under their license? Can I upgrade memory from 1gb to 2gb without "re-registering"? Can I add additional hard drives or optical drives? Change out the video card? Add wireless? Change CPUs? I'd like to make a few upgrades, especially to memory, but I don't want to void the license or have to reinstall. If you installed Windows XP in more than 120 days ago, you can do whatever you want. But if you installed less than 120 days ago, you may need to phone Micro$oft to confirm your license. In other words, you can install XP on a completely new system without having call them (automatic online activation) as long as you haven't done a re-install in the last 120 days. I'm legal but its been less than four months since I registered. Maybe I'll just wait to upgrade memory on my main system and add hard drives on the server. |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
If it's a full or upgrade version (Retail) then the worst that could happen
is it will ask you to go online and attempt to reactivate, and then may ask you to call MS for a new number. It's painless. If it's an OEM version then it's only good for one motherboard, normally. Unless your motherboard breaks and you have to replace it. I've read of someone who had that happen and when he called MS they reactivated it. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
Ed Light wrote:
If it's a full or upgrade version (Retail) then the worst that could happen is it will ask you to go online and attempt to reactivate, and then may ask you to call MS for a new number. It's painless. If it's an OEM version then it's only good for one motherboard, normally. Unless your motherboard breaks and you have to replace it. I've read of someone who had that happen and when he called MS they reactivated it. I don't wanna change the motherboard, just add a gig of memory to one machine and add a couple of hard drives to another. I just want to make the hardware upgrade and get on with life without worrying about whether the system will come up and operate when I boot it up after the upgrade. CV |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
"Cal Vanize" wrote I don't wanna change the motherboard, just add a gig of memory to one machine and add a couple of hard drives to another. I just want to make the hardware upgrade and get on with life without worrying about whether the system will come up and operate when I boot it up after the upgrade. Sure, if it wants you to reactivate it will run for awhile to give you time to do it. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org Fight Spam: http://bluesecurity.com |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
You will be fine. It actually takes a lot to trigger the reactivation.
Swapping or addig hard drives or adding Ram will not come close. I swap stuff all the time and I have only had to reactivate maybe 3 time in dozens of parts swaps and 2 of the three times I just did it online which takes less than a minute and the other time I just had to call Micro$oft and they gave me a number to reactivate without hassle. So in your case I doubt seriously you will have to deal with reactivation but even if you not it is not a problem at all. And by the way even if you do have to reactivate you have at least a few days. Your machine will still run and work fine you will just get a popup every so often reminding you that you need to reactivate. Joe "Cal Vanize" wrote in message ... Ed Light wrote: If it's a full or upgrade version (Retail) then the worst that could happen is it will ask you to go online and attempt to reactivate, and then may ask you to call MS for a new number. It's painless. If it's an OEM version then it's only good for one motherboard, normally. Unless your motherboard breaks and you have to replace it. I've read of someone who had that happen and when he called MS they reactivated it. I don't wanna change the motherboard, just add a gig of memory to one machine and add a couple of hard drives to another. I just want to make the hardware upgrade and get on with life without worrying about whether the system will come up and operate when I boot it up after the upgrade. CV |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
And by the way even if you do have to reactivate you have at least a
few days. Your machine will still run and work fine you will just get a popup every so often reminding you that you need to reactivate. Joe I think its 30 days. I'm sure I've replaced a motherboard before without having to reactivate. XP is quite tolerant activation, and the phone call to Microsoft is quite painless and only takes a few minutes. |
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What upgrades can I do under XP?
As long as you have a legal copy it's not an issue to re-register. It's done
online rather seamlessly. No worries...unless you're illegal. I really don't understand why MS did that crap to home edition, people who are going to pirate windows want XP pro, and XP Pro corp doesn't require activation at all. Infact when I upgraded my motherboard, processor, and graphics card I didn't have any problem, I just did a harddrive switch and pro corp didn't have any problem at all. |
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