Is it possible to use a Windows XP (Home Edition) which has been installed in one PC?
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Not if the current XP laptop had XP installed at the factory.\n\nIf you have the installation disk for Windows XP (note: NOT the recovery disk for the current XP laptop), then sure, you can install XP on the ME laptop.\n\nOtherwise, you'll have to buy (unless you have some other means of acquiring...) an upgrade to XP CD (which is not as expensive as the full installation CD).
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Yes you can as long as you are using Windows XP Home or Pro and not Windows 64.
352025
Get a copy of Windows XP and install it.\n\n-J
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If you are a legitimate owner of the software, you should have the original install media(floppies, CD, etc). If so, uninstall the software from the original machine and reinstall it on the new machine.\n\nThe only way to transfer the program to a new PC would involve make an image of the hard disk (use Ghost or equivalent) and load it on the new PC... Then load the operating system UPGRADE onto the new PC. There is no guarantee that the program will run under the new operating system, however.
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A home user can use a windows xp disk on one computer as many times as he/she wishes.
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From my understanding, it sounds like you want to "copy" you install of windows XP onto another computer.  This will not work for a few reasons. 1) The current WinXP installation is configured for the machine its on right now.  If you transfer exactly that windows install it will not load. (without some major hacks)\n2)It's technically illegal to install one copy of windows xp on two machines.\n\nBut on the other hand to transfer information between the two machines, the easiest solution is to pull the Hard drive from the 98 machine and stick it in the XP machine.  XP will recognize this new drive and make it a local drive (E, or some other letter).  From that point you can tranfer information to and from it like any other storage device.
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So long as it is on the same PC, you can install it over and over again. When you register XP across the Internet it records pieces of information from your hardware, so that next time you reformat and reinstall it will check against that information, and providing everything is the same, it will have no problems with a re-install.
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you can't, you must purchase the XP OS
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install from any xp cd and give your cd key it w'll work
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the question is not clear. \nyou had an old copy of xp - WHERE. on a CD or PC?\n\nif it was on a CD - then it has no registry.\nif it was on another PC - then startup up that PC, click start->RUN->type"regedit" and search the registry for the KEY.\nif it was on this new PC (on which you installed XP again) - then the old registry is gone, as it was re-written by the new one.\n\nyou bought a new pc and installed XP - SO WHERE WAS THE OLD XP?
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you shouldn't have any driver probs going from xp home to xp pro...they use the same drivers.  If you have hardware that doesn't have drivers then I would suggest you reinstall the drivers using any XP drivers for the hardware.
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you can not use that win xp cd. you cant install  it is (OEM) version microsoft will not help you . that version is for 1 pc not 200 pc's even if you find a product key for that  your still have to actiavte it with in 30 days by phone with microsoft & that is where it will not be done b/c you have .da wrong product key & windows will not loginto desktop in 30 days
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Many ways! Depends on your flavour! You can simply put the XP cd in and do a fresh install over win2k, you can buy a second hard drive and install XP on it and run two seperate operating systems (my favorite)!
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Should have come with your software. Unless of course you bought a pirated copy :( I believe I read something about XP and future editions of Windows will be configured to become inoperable on the host computer if the key is entered into another computer (like if you buy a new computer and load your copy of xp on it, it will become inoperable on the old computer)
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Yes you can download the Win XP home eddition over Win XP Pro. But I think you mean to ask can you install Win XP home eddition over Win XP Pro, the answer is <b>NO</b>.
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There is no easy way to do it.\n\nThe only way I can think of would be to create a bootable network floppy disk to give you DOS access to the network, then you can map a drive to another PC and run the windows XP installation from there... Network install. It will work but you'll have to use a full version of XP.
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All the other things will stop working if you wipe it clean and start over. However, you should be able to re-install a legitimate copy of Windows over top of the existing one and everything in the registry for the other programs will be kept, and the programs should still work....even if they are counterfeit.\nMine came with XP Home Edition already installed.