Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
I seem to recall a whole rigamarole with XP install CDs where, if you had an OEM CD from one manufacturer and wanted to install on a different brand laptop, you had to rip the CD, edit or delete a file, then burn a new CD. What am I thinking of?
Never had a problem.
Originally Posted by
Dodge DeBoulet
Violating Microsoft's license agreement would be my guess
Not necessarily.
I used that particular CD because it was already SP3, which saved me a lot of download time. The computers I was installing it into normally had a valid COA sticker, so activating it was pretty fast. It's just that with Dells, the activation was already taken care of.