>I recently upgraded my main home machine from WinXP Home to Pro. This leaves my XP Home version eligible to install on my secondary machine which currently has Win98SE on it. Question is, how do I "deactivate" the activation for the computer XP Home was on so I can apply the activcation to the second machine since MS will reject the attempt to activate XP on the second machine due to different hardware, etc. Is there a procedure for this? Does MS have to be contacted, etc.?
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>Thanks,
>Bill

Bill,

I bought a new machine to replace one that had XP Pro on it and just installed XP Pro on the new machine with no problem. The new one definately had different hardware. I thought the deal was that you got like 10 activations and that was it, but maybe I just got lucky?