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The best solution may have been to install Ubuntu.  A couple of years 
ago, I bought a brand-new eMachines, running Windows Vista.  I 
discovered it did not have a dial-up modem, so it was useless to me 
since I'm still stuck with dial-up service.  When I decided to install a 
modem in it, and wanted to install Windows XP instead of Vista, I ran 
into the same convoluted licensing maze.

So now the "new" computer has a modem and Ubuntu tweaked for dial-up, 
thanks to my good friends at OpenOffice.org, and I'll be starting to use 
it this coming Wednesday.

Joyce in SE Ohio

On 4/24/2011 2:02 AM, Bruce Lund wrote:
> Well, that's bull****! Not that you wrote it. But that those greedy folks at Microsoft make this so difficult (and expensive.) But there is some very good news which I share below and I actually have you to thank for it.
>
>>>> Microsoft licensing is very technical and has even changed throughout the life of Windows XP. . . OEM software is tied to the original computer, and specifically the motherboard.  I'm guessing since you have an eMachines,it came with that machine and is an OEM version.

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