Every single Dell system I have worked on from the Win2k days on up (NT4
based machines shipped with a Microsoft branded NT4 OEM CD) have come
with a VLK cd. Also, depending on when you bought the machine, it will
have SP2 or not. I'm staring at a Dell OEM recovery disc with SP2 right now.
j maccraw wrote:
The CD's we get with systems, maybe I've not looked to
see what OEM crap
is chained into the Dell XP CD's I have. I also
assumed Dell send techs
out with a customized Windows install or SysPrep'd
image.
There are also at least 2 kinds of Dell XP OEM CD's,
normal ones that
need keys and VLK ones that need no activation. Was
real surprised when
the disc I pulled out of my box of Dell CD's turned
out to be a VLK
version (though sadly SP1, and not slipstreamable).
Don't know which
machine it came with orginally but Woohoo!
Ben Ruset wrote:
j maccraw wrote:
As for the Dell guy, all they would do is use the
Dell
restore CD to revert it back to shipping state or
they would ship
the unit back to Dell if it needed more than could
be swapped on site.
Compaq of course would say "ship it back or buy a
new PC".
FYI, Dell restore CD's consist of a generic Windows
OEM disk, and a
second disk for drivers that you load manually, one
by one. Any
bloatware either comes on it's own media or gets
lost forever when you
do a reinstall.
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