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Will COA work with my XP CD?
Name: Diginight Date: March 1, 2004 at 08:40:02 Pacific OS: Xp Pro CPU/Ram: 800/256
Comment:
Hi guys, Quick question about COAs. I been searching on Resellerratings.com and saw a few vendors selling COA of WINXP Pro. Past year I bought the full version of Windows XP Pro from Staples. Would the COA that they are selling will work with my XP CD? Any thoughts on this subject?
Name: Dan_at_MacEng Date: March 1, 2004 at 10:12:08 Pacific
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I would not advice you to use it. The reason is that even though they are designed such that thay can be used for any PC, sometimes they don't work because the user might have registered it with Microsoft. So if that's the case, you might not know if you are getting the full deal here. If you do end up buying one which any other user has registered already, it is a great hastle to change all the verification info from microsoft since it is still legally his own COA according to Microsoft.
Bottomline, I won't recommend it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan @ McMaster Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Response Number 2
Name: trvlr Date: March 1, 2004 at 11:23:34 Pacific
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ermmm...
COA = ???
new one for me
help!
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Response Number 3
Name: Wombat Date: March 1, 2004 at 11:54:17 Pacific
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COA = Certificate Of Authenticity...
Iligitimi non carborundum est
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Response Number 4
Name: trvlr Date: March 2, 2004 at 06:43:12 Pacific
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Thankyou - yet another acronym...
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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 2, 2004 at 12:00:20 Pacific
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If you bought Windows XP, you'd already have a valid license. Why would you need another one? I'm a little confused.
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