Perenial Posted March 28, 2009 Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 Hi,I have 3 PC's around the house, 2 laptops and a desk top. The desktop and 1 laptop have bonafide copies of Windows XP and the proper licenses. The second laptop I purchased secondhand - yes you've guessed it - it has come up with a microsoft warning that the copy of windows installed might be a counterfeit copy, what I want to know is if I install a legit copy onto a second machine will this give me any problems? - since they are both my machines I am not about to purchase yet another copy of XP. Please note I am not looking for advice on how to 'defeat' this so please do NOT offer such in any replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 28, 2009 Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 Hi,Please note I am not looking for advice on how to 'defeat' this so please do NOT offer such in any replies.You certainly won't get such advice here! :) The only legitimate way to get your errant machine Microsoft approved is to obtain a genuine copy of the operating system. Before doing that, it would be worthwhile checking with Microsoft that what you are being told is correct. There have been a number of false positives come up on these genuine checks - I had one myself once when, after many years of use, the MS updater came up with a non-genuine message. It was soon remedied by a quick call to MS.The point is with most software is that you purchase a license (with the twenty five symbol Product Key) to use it under the conditions specified by the manufacturer. The fact you may have it in a physical form on a disk is irrelevant. You can certainly use a disk you already have but you MUST use a Product Key pertinent to the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perenial Posted March 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 Hi,Please note I am not looking for advice on how to 'defeat' this so please do NOT offer such in any replies.You certainly won't get such advice here! :) The only legitimate way to get your errant machine Microsoft approved is to obtain a genuine copy of the operating system. Before doing that, it would be worthwhile checking with Microsoft that what you are being told is correct. There have been a number of false positives come up on these genuine checks - I had one myself once when, after many years of use, the MS updater came up with a non-genuine message. It was soon remedied by a quick call to MS.The point is with most software is that you purchase a license (with the twenty five symbol Product Key) to use it under the conditions specified by the manufacturer. The fact you may have it in a physical form on a disk is irrelevant. You can certainly use a disk you already have but you MUST use a Product Key pertinent to the disk.THanks for the reply.What I am afraid of is installing my legitimate copy onto a second machine and then windows blocking updates to one/both machines. I do wish microsoft would relax it's license conditions such that at home (and from a single IP address) more than one PC could be used, after all 1 TV license is good enough for all my TV's. even a second license at a reduced cost would probably benefit them.Is there a feedback direct to microsoft available to ordinary members of the public? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 28, 2009 Report Share Posted March 28, 2009 Assuming you're in the UK, this should help you:http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/cu_...ws=support#tab1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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