Hi again Steve,

Well, this time it took another 23 minutes, but now I have a 2200 series desktop with 3 COA numbers - ALL DIFFERENT. Now one has to ask with which I might rebuild this PC. The original with the paper COA, or the 2 email issued. Am I violating my EULA or is Compaq violating their distribution agreement with Microsoft? Who knows?

>I use Win98 on my own machine. I have an old Win95 that I don't use. I thought about giving that to my sister, but I like to keep it around just in case. I don't think that would be illegal since I don't use it any more. It is a legal original Win95 and so is my Win98 version that I use currently.
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>I still think I am going to call Compaq or e-mail them again and complain. The QuickRestore that they sent me is restricted to this single machine because I had to give them the Serial Number of the Compaq machine in order to get them to approve my purchase of QuickRestore software.

Exactly. The QuickRecovery is very specific to the hardware configuration as shipped. Also the loaded software configuration could vary from machine to machine.