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by reever

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Traditionally and even with Office XP, you have been able to install the software on your desktop as well as your portable. I have heard conflicting reports that this OS will not allow you to do an installation on both. They say one PC period. Can someone tell me if this is true, or if it allows you activation on a PC and on a laptop, as Office XP does?

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by dmiles

It will activate on one computer,that is once setup runs the activation detects the hardware and software configuration and if any thing is different when you boot the computer and the configuration has changed then you will receive a stop error message.
The best way is to expierment to see if setup will activate after setting up one computer then the other.

by dklippert

Unlike the Office Suite, the EULA for WXP does not allow the OS to be used on more than one machine. It never has.
Here's the relevant portion from the W2K EULA:

1. GRANT OF LICENSE. This EULA grants you the following rights:

Installation andUse. You may only install, use, access, display and run one (1) copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on the COMPUTER.

Storage/Network Use. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT may not be installed, accessed, displayed, run, shared or used concurrently on or from different computers, including a workstation, terminal or other digital electronic device ("Devices?)

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