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OS Licenses? NO, NO, NO.[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#14)
by Anonymous User on Fri Feb 10, 2006 at 07:51:22 PM PDT

Absolutely NOTHING should be system licensed. System licensing of OS prevents repairing/replacing and upgrading (the OS reads it as a 'different' computer when you change anything. Can be something as big as your motherboard, or can be something like your RAM, graphics card or processor). If the OS refuses to run it takes all your files and applications hostage along with it. To see this in effect, try transferring a hard disk with WinXP installed to another computer with a different motherboard. You will get a "System hardware has changed, windows will not start, reformat" message.

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