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Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: |
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>> In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who |
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>> is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) |
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> But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only |
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> run in the machine that Dell bought it for, from Microsoft. |
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> I'll try running the image of the partition which I made when I bought it on |
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> another machine and see what gives if I get the time, but in the past I |
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> remember trying something similar and I could not get it to work. |
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I am not in that to deep. IIRC oem has no meaning in Germany. This is |
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part of the license agreement what you have to accept after buying the |
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software. Law says you have to accept it before or it is not part of the |
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contract. |
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I never tried lately but you should be able to install from every Win CD |
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you find and just use the code from that green sticker. There even is a |
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tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once |
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hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal |
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again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought, you are done |
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without installing everything again. |
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But again I don't know if it works in every constellation nor if it is |
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legal everywhere. |
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kh |
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