> I don't think you can, I believe the serial #s are forwarded to MS > at the > time of install.
Not really, but if and when you activate XP that is when the product # gets recorded. I happen to have about five versions of XP. Two are pretty much liked to the machines they came on. I have the disks for the other three. Early on I had installed one copy several times and had to use the phone activation. I think that MS has moderated their rules some since then. When I install XP once again I sometimes forget which copy I have installed it on which machine and so I think I have installed the same copy on more than one machine, but not simultaneously. I have not had to use the phone activation since that one time. > .I upgraded 3 systems and had to buy 3 separate boxes of XP, You make it sound like cereal that you can pour into your computer. :-) But I would say that the safest strategy is not to install one copy on more than one machine at a time without a site license. I think that there may be those who have succeeded in doing that, but I have not tried. Ironically other software seems not to care how many machines you install them on. I have PQ Partition Magic on two machines. Jim ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hp8bjhg/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705115386:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123352100/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
