that's what I wondered. but surely, once it's installed, they wouldn't stop it. What my plan is, is to free this computer, for my daughter. she is on it doing homework for hours, every eveining, and I can never get on. Her senior year is going to be a tough one - calculus, physics and AP Chem - along with all of the other honors classes, and band! which takes more hours than anything. but then, after this year, she'll be going to college and taking this computer with her - Guess it won't hurt to ask. doubt I'll get it that way though. Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: Bashful Bob To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 2:23 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: win xp - purchase Hi You have to be enrolled in school to get it and they sold it through the associated college bookstore. The license agreement states that you must be enrolled and should you stop being enrolled, for whatever reason, you can no longer use the full student version. I remember one other person in here stated that they could get it through their child's high school in their child's name and I assume it must be registered that way. If the high school student must do homework on the puter using XP OS, I think they can sell a student version of the XP OS to the student. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk