XP Professional.
Donated Dell laptops, drives not wiped, (I’ll do it for them anyway) but at least encrypted. Dell Windows XP Pro product keys on the affixed COA tags.
Can I install a retail copy of XP Professional, then change to the OEM product key for activation? I’ve seen both yea and nay answers, and 20 methods to do similar things, but I don’t have that kind of time to test. No, I don’t have any VLK disks.
For example, would this work per http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1334 ?
Or are we looking at ordering a bunch of sets of Dell recovery disks? (Yeah, they want to stick with Windows, or this would be just too easy.)
So, yea or nay? (Attn: Seagulls – no posts on subjects which will earn you the TR Community Letter of Doom. We won’t answer your password questions. Srsly.)
Or just stop by and say Boo for a Thumb.
(No guarantees of immediate gratification after Sunday, when I will be incommunicado for an indeterminate interval. O noes, no Internets!)
