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morriswindgate · 04-12-2002, 09:29 AM

What I am wondering, to clarify, does Windows XP Professional have the same constraints as the Home Edition when it come to the reliance on hardware ID as part of it's activation.
I do not want to buy something that when I do a major change to my hardware or a replacment build that I have to call up to get another activation.
For instance, the last upgrade I did to my computer involved a new motherboard, CPU, Sound card, removed a second parallel port card, and replaced one 30 gig hard drive with a 40 gig. From what I understand of the activation system on XP this would have been enough to cause me to need a new activation code. And this was an upgrade of a four month old computer when I did this.

04-12-2002, 09:29 AM	#3
morriswindgate Banned Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Bakersfield,CA Posts: 7,761	What I am wondering, to clarify, does Windows XP Professional have the same constraints as the Home Edition when it come to the reliance on hardware ID as part of it's activation. I do not want to buy something that when I do a major change to my hardware or a replacment build that I have to call up to get another activation. For instance, the last upgrade I did to my computer involved a new motherboard, CPU, Sound card, removed a second parallel port card, and replaced one 30 gig hard drive with a 40 gig. From what I understand of the activation system on XP this would have been enough to cause me to need a new activation code. And this was an upgrade of a four month old computer when I did this.