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Originally posted by fusionx
There's basically two things to think about; licensing and reasonable use.
If it's windows xp OEM, and it didn't come with a purchased OEM machine (say Dell, etc), you are not legally licensed and you'll never prove reasonable use. That also assumes the seller of the OEM machine was legally licensed to include the OEM copy of XP.
If it's a driver disk for a network card, and you own one, even though you didn't get the disk with the card purchase, it's going to be easy to show reasonable use. You can't use the card without drivers, etc..
Extremes, yes, but generally sound.
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Actually... I have 2 OEM versions of XP Pro... Micro$oft knows... I have called for tect support.. they told me that I needed to contact the computer manufacturer to get help... Told them I put the system together.. they said I was shit out of luck for support.