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Old 12-21-2004, 06:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cooldude3552000
I am building a computer and I have one problem, I want to use windows XP but can't afford to buy it but I don't want to build a nice computer but just use win 98 (I have a disk for that). I wanted to know if I could use the XP reinstalation disk that came with my moms dell?
First of all that is illegal. Second of all Microsoft took care of that:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ctivation.mspx


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Originally Posted by cooldude3552000
Also my mom bought a copy of microsoft office (only 19 bucks new through my dads company!) and I wanted to know if there is a way to instal it on my computer also? Another thing is I looked on the back of the box and it said I need a pentium 3 processor with 233mhz, I am using an AMD processor, does that matter? I though a processor had nothing to do with what kind of programs you could run as long as it was fast enough.

Thanks,
Colin
Third of all that is illegal. Fourth of all Microsoft took care of that (if you have Office 2003):

http://www.microsoft.com/office/edit...ctivation.mspx
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