XP Service Pack 2 Bomb

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by datatab1

my father is a member of the windows xp support team. he says that windows XP SP2 will deactivate your windows if you don't have a valid key. so if you don't have a valid one, you're screwed if you install sp2 on your machine.

Good to know.. But considering I bought my laptop off of ebay with Windows XP already installed, I don't know if I have a legal copy.. Now do I?

Any way to check on these kinds of things?

And, the converstion going on in the majority of this thread is about WindowsXP SP2 "bugs" and it's reliability as a upgrade, and not software issues that are intended to kill a non valid copy.

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Good to know.. But considering I bought my laptop off of ebay with Windows XP already installed, I don't know if I have a legal copy.. Now do I?

Any way to check on these kinds of things?

Well, you should have stick on your laptop which says "Windows XP Home/Professional Edition" and also the key for it. Of course, it could be a legal copy which was bought and installed legally and the sticker just wasn't put on, but...

And if XP was factory installed, then it will definetly have the sticker.

And, of course, you could always just get SP2 to find out...

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

And, the converstion going on in the majority of this thread is about WindowsXP SP2 "bugs" and it's reliability as a upgrade, and not software issues that are intended to kill a non valid copy.

Seemed a fair enough point to me, but hey, whatever...