}{'lo eveyone!
Ok, I have a little puzzle here. I'm fixing up a dell (4400) computer and its been pretty much crushed under a trojen/spyware attack, I could MAYBE fix it with some programs but at this point it would just be easyer to wipe the HDD and start fresh (they don't realy have any data to lose because they only recently recovered from something similar from what I understand. Dont you just hate it when that happens?)
The problem? Well like any big company dell didn't ship their unit with a REAL windows XP home disk, just a "restore" cd
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However there is a windows XP home code on the side of their case and I have a REAL windows xp home CD from one of my other computers, so my question is, when windows asks for verification of XP, does it go by the disk that was used to install it, or the code I type in? Can I use the CODE from their case with my CD?
I know Microsoft recently had some sort of anti-piracy content thing distributed with their windows updates, basically im just trying to avoid a licensing fiasco and get XP home installed from a REAL disk. Is this possible to do with my disk with their code?
Many thanx for the input and answers I have received before from you all, and hopefully with this!
edit: (woops! Shoulda put this under windows instead of software. O well.)
