Whats the difference??? I just want to install an OS on my daughter's system (I'm building). There seems to be big price differences just looking at XP home. I thought I should stay with retail because I have so little expertise and thought the package would be more complete (less for me to be expected to know
View 19 RepliesWhat is the difference besides the price. Oem is 90.00 and retail is 199.00. Why?
View 12 Replies View RelatedDownload the "Corp" version of Win XP Pro, file-sharing or torrent, and then run validation, fail, and get MS to sell you a retail copy of 1/2 price. Do the same thing, download Corp XP Pro. Burn a copy to CD on a computer it isn't install on, make up a receipt, and go to the Library and do a search of newspapers for computer shows from a couple years ago.Fill out the forms MS gives you and send in with the CD and receipt, and get MS to send you a retail copy for free. OK, I'm not really advocating anybody doing this, just trying to make a point. If someone is gonna pirate XP to begin with, what makes MS think that people won't be doing things like this? Why isn't retail XP sold at the price that is being offered to people with pirated Windows to begin with?
View 24 Replies View RelatedI'm looking on Newegg right now, and see that there is a Retail version of Windows and an OEM version of Windows, but yet they fail to describe what comes in each one.So, which one should I buy? The Retail or the OEM? Money isn't an issue at this moment, so if the Retail is recommended, I could get it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhy do some versions of Windows XP Home edition cost ~£60, when others cost ~£170?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am considering this computer sold by shopNBC.com but I am unable to get a review or product evaluation on price, performance or support.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWith the Vista Ultimate rumored price of $450. Neowin did a survey. 442 of 1338 said that $299 was a fair price. While 861 found it a better idea to pick it up on the street for $10 bucks.
View 26 Replies View RelatedLooking to install a fresh copy of XP home on a computer that's been formated.Found these two prices.I they look like both will work with a clean hard drive but the price difference is a lot. I was wondering if someone could enlighten me on why.
View 5 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know what the selling price of just the licence is, without the software?
View 1 Replies View Relatedthe installation key is not Valid. I have the OEM key and I want to change it. I tried the tool (KeyUpdateTool_enu.exe) to change key. but it gives an error.
Then I used the registry edit method, and it doesn't accept the OEM key.
Does anyone know of particular advantages to the [retail] version of XP Home over an [OEM] version of XP Home?
View 23 Replies View Relatedif I upgrade my friends comp from xp home to xp pro that NONE of her data will be lost and will work EXACTLY the same as before only just PRO installed. This is because she has messed up her computer and I am going to fix it. But I do not want to do a clean install. When the system is in the boot area and asks me to install XPP do I have it do a recovery install etc?
View 9 Replies View Relatedso about 6 months ago i bought a windows xp home edition retail (the one with the nice box)... im about to build a new pc e6550, 2gb ram, 8800 gts... my question is can i reuse that copy of windows that i bought? i already used it once when i installed it on my current computer
View 2 Replies View RelatedI know im the wrong forum but ME doesn't get looked at much anymore. I need to know this so as to reinstall XP upgrade retail edition. Thought you long timers in this forum would be able to help me. I have a full retail ver.of ME. IT comes with 2 discs. 1-OS 2-Boot floppy . MY boot floppy was erased. I can't reinstall ME without this boot floppy on an empty drive . Has anyone used anything from bootdisc.com? or any other site for this such thing. I know MS probably still has some around but try to buy one.
View 4 Replies View RelatedCurrently running "98se" and want to switch up to "Windows 2000 pro.". What is the difference between the "Windows 2000 OEM" version and the "Windows 2000 Retail" version. With the "OEM" version they talk about accompanying hardware per Microsoft requirements (which may or may not work with my system)? What should I look for If buying the "OEM" version (COA etc.) "OEM" seems to be alot less expensive, but I need to know what I'm getting.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently brought a laptop with XP Home preloaded, but as I had a retail CD of XP
pro I thought I'd boot from that CD and run setup which includes a full reformat.
I now have XP pro up and running, but I get an annoying "dual boot" screen giving
a choice of XP pro and XP home! How can I get rid of this dual boot screen as XP
Home no longer exists?
Anyone know of a good effective way of removing Intel retail thermal tape from the processor?I'm just going to remove it and replace with Arctic Silver.
View 16 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002; Service Pack 2; Pentium 4; 496 MB. I went into my add/remove programs and I have Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (and its Hotfix). Now, I am trying to understand what the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 are for. Which version of the .NET Framework should I have.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm running XP Home, SP3, and I have an intermittent problem, which I think may be windows based. From time to time, when I click on an icon on the home screen, all the icons behind it will also show as having been selected (and there will be a screen message saying that it will take a long time to load <number> programs, do you want to proceed?).
View 11 Replies View Relatedneeding help on switching users. when i go to start, then log off, and then select switch users nothing happens. it works if i log off but then all of my programs that were running shut down. i cant get it to go to the login screen that comes up when you select switch users.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI come now with a new problem. I pretended for some time I did not care, but that is now making me pull the hair from my head.I installed something (which I did not pay attention to at that time and I don't remember what it was) and too many other programs after that (programs I constantly use, and therefore I don't want to get rid of). If I roll back my computer to an earlier time to dismiss this problem, I would be uninstalling all those valuable programs I am talking about
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen I go to Display Properties//Desktop (tab)// and select a wallpaper there are several copies of the same thing. Is there a way to limit it to only those pics in the Windows//Web//Wallpaper folder?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to select multiple files to move, delete, copy etc. I use the keyboard Ctrl key to accomplish this. Unfortunately half the time or more this also results in a copy of the files being made. I believe the keyboard trick for copying multiple files should be Ctrl + C. Anybody know how to use the Ctrl key to select only without any copy being made.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn explorer I select a long list of files (i.e. 50+ files apx 15MB each) the selection process is fast. But after all the files are selected I want to del them or copy them or whatever... so I right click my mouse to get to the 'right click menu' but at this point there is a LONG pause. This pause can be between 10-20 seconds depending on how many files I have highlighted
View 1 Replies View RelatedUpon start-up, and after selecting a user..usually Christine, my wife [there are 4 users set-up] at the desktop screen I immediately get a pop-up error box that reads WUAUCLT.exe encountered an error and needs to close. It also goes on to read...if you want to send this message to Microsoft click this and then, of course, there is the Don't Send option as well. I usually click the don't send option....10 seconds later the box pops back up...I went to Task Mgr a few times and saw it [wuauclt.exe] running in Processes and was able to stop it from running. However, it is not always in Task Mgr to stop!
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For the past month I have been getting the following error message when clicking the control panel button: Registry error - the system cannot find the file specified. I then click ok and I move directly to the control panel.
View 6 Replies View RelatedOn an irregular basis, in both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, text is suddenly selected that I don't want selected, sometimes covering the entire web page. I can close and reopen the browser and the behavior stops, sometimes for days, sometimes only for hours.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow do you do it? It's easy enough to select MY PICTURES for a slideshow, but I only want the photos in a sub-folder. There is no way to point to the sub-folder under Properties or Settings.
View 3 Replies View RelatedError on boot: we apologise for the inconvience but windows did not start successfully a recent hardware or software change might have caused this if your computer stopped responding restarted unexpectally or automatically shut down to protect your files and folders choose your last known good configuration: 1. boot in safe mode 2. boot in safe mode with networking 3. boot in safe mode with command prompt. Any option i choose it goes to boot screen comes up and restarts and the same error as the one above comes up.
View 7 Replies View Relatedmy computer was infected with -powered by Zeno' spyware and I was advised to start in safe mode to remove some files. I ticked safemode under boot.ini in msconfig and my computer restarted, but only got as far as the Windows XP loadup page before rebooting itself. I have tried 'last known good configuration' etc, but to no avail... the computer simpl will not get past this point. I decided to reinstall (repair) Windows XP, but unfortunately, I cannot do this because it reaches a screen where it says setup cannot complete under safe mode. I can't turn this safemode off though, because I can't get the computer on to reaccess boot.ini.
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