-=PCTechTalk=- Using an XP upgrade to do a claen insatll that is legal

For all you folks who have illegal copies of Windows XP software installed to 
be legal you have to buy the product.  If you have an illegal copy of your 
local newspaper (that is you or someone else stole it) and you want a legal 
copy of the newspaper you have to buy it.  With a newspaper, if you want to use 
the legal copy you bought you have to read it.  With the software, if you want 
to use the legal copy  you have to install it.  You can buy the CD which will 
have a product key with the packaging or you can buy just the license which 
will not have a CD but will have a product key (you might want just the license 
if you have a copy of the CD already.)  You can install the software by using 
the CD or you can input the legal product key.  How to install the product key 
is explained in Mike's file.  If you have a legal CD for Me or 98 you can buy 
an XP upgrade.  If you want to do a clean install with the upgrade CD you can 
format the drive during the installation.  You will loo
 se
 everything on the hard drive, including the old Me or 98.  At some point you 
will have to insert your Me or 98 CD to prove you own a legal copy you are 
updating from. You do not have to spend the extra money for a non upgrade full 
CD to do a clean install. You just have to prove you have Me or 98 by inserting 
your old CD in the CD drive when asked. You also can use the upgrade CD without 
wiping out the Me or 98 and it will keep your settings from Me or 98.  This is 
where people seem to have problems when they say they are using the upgrade CD. 
 By having the XP installation format the drive you wipe out the old software 
and every thing else which gives you a clean new install with the upgrade CD.  
Simply if you have an illegal XP that you or someone else stole you have to buy 
XP to be legal.  A pirated copy is a copy someone stole. Hope this helps to 
explain things.
Dave
 
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Yes that's my problem. Well my parents but I have to fix it. So that's what
I 
am trying to figure out how to do to make it legal
Cindy







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