- Joined
- Nov 21, 2005
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
A business down the street hired me the other day to do all of their computer work because the guy before me messed a lot of things up and apparently did nothing right.(Half the office is on their domain, the other half is on the workgroup, all the software seems to be illegal, etc.) Well almost all of these office computers have the wga thing on them. I told the lady that runs the office that she needs to make all of these computers legal. Well I know you can get the discounted serials if you mail them a copy of the "forged" cd you purchased from someone, but there isn't one in the office to be found since the guy that was previously doing their computer work installed the same illegal copy on all the computers.
So I just told the lady to purchase a few 3-packs of xp pro, sp2 oem since there's only like 6 or 8 compies in the office.
Am I correct in thinking an oem key goes with an oem disc/install?
My question is after the lady purchases the licenses, how do I switch the serials over to the new ones? The existing ones aren't oem versions(obviously) so deactivating windows and reactivating with a new key won't work right?
I've never had a problem with my windows installs not being legit so I don't really know how to go about making these ones legal without reinstalling.
So I just told the lady to purchase a few 3-packs of xp pro, sp2 oem since there's only like 6 or 8 compies in the office.
Am I correct in thinking an oem key goes with an oem disc/install?
My question is after the lady purchases the licenses, how do I switch the serials over to the new ones? The existing ones aren't oem versions(obviously) so deactivating windows and reactivating with a new key won't work right?
I've never had a problem with my windows installs not being legit so I don't really know how to go about making these ones legal without reinstalling.