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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2006WindowsXP Activation
So I upgraded from VPC6 with Windows 2000 to VPC7 with XP. I've never used XP so I was a little thrown by "activation". I wanted to load VPC on both my laptop and desktop machines. What I want to know is activating one machine prevent me from activating it on another. I called the activation line and they didn't have a clue about what VPC was. They just kept telling me that I can only load it on the machine that XP shipped with. They thought VPC was a PC. In the activation screen it said something a keying to the hardware ID (or something like that). Since VPC is an emulation wouldn't the XP see the same machine where ever it's loaded? Basic question is can I load VPC-XP on both of my machines and activate it in both places, or once I activate it on one machine, I'm dead in the water on the other after 30 days? Before people start bashing me about software theft and such, both machines are mine and I'm only using one copy at a time. I'd hate to have to go out an buy another retail copy of XP just to get another product key for XP.  SignatureTake out the "REMOVE" in the return address to reply Doesn't matter whether you're only using 'one copy at a time'. That's like saying 'I'm only stealing from one store at a time'. It's still illegal. VPC is licensed for one machine only. On 3/22/06 10:08 PM, in article carl.price-6EC631.23081522032006@comcast.dca.giganews.com, "Carl Price" <carl.price@comcast.REMOVETHIS.net> wrote: > Basic question is can I load VPC-XP on both of my machines and activate > it in both places, or once I activate it on one machine, I'm dead in the > water on the other after 30 days? --- Not sure about the actual activation issue, but I know you can install and activate on one Mac. Then, install VPC on the other Mac and copy over the previously setup hard disk image and use it without any hassles. VPC7 checks the local network for other copies of the same serial number running, so you can only run VPC on one at a time anyway. I have installed VPC 7 and Windows XP on my desktop iMac and my laptop. They both work. However, if I try to use VPC with the laptop and it's activated on the desktop, a window comes up that I have two copies of windows running and have to shut one down. > On 3/22/06 10:08 PM, in article > carl.price-6EC631.23081522032006@comcast.dca.giganews.com, "Carl Price" [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > VPC7 checks the local network for other copies of the same serial number > running, so you can only run VPC on one at a time anyway. > I have installed VPC 7 and Windows XP on my desktop iMac and my laptop. > They both work. However, if I try to use VPC with the laptop and it's [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > VPC7 checks the local network for other copies of the same serial number > > running, so you can only run VPC on one at a time anyway. Ahem. This is news to you? _Where_ have you been living for the last decade? Which SURVIVOR series were you on? Would I recognize you? Microsoft won't license you to run a single copy of XP on multiple machines simultaneously on the same network. You need to buy another copy of XP to run both at once on the same network or shut one of them down. SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... > I have installed VPC 7 and Windows XP on my desktop iMac and my laptop. > They both work. However, if I try to use VPC with the laptop and it's [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > VPC7 checks the local network for other copies of the same serial number > > running, so you can only run VPC on one at a time anyway. Thanks. This answers my question. I only use VPC to run Quicken for Windows. Sometimes I do it on my laptop, other times from my desktop since I have the Quicken data files on my ipod and will only be using it in one place at a time. It sounds like what they do with Office 2004. If it sees itself running elsewhere on a network, it shuts down. SignatureTake out the "REMOVE" in the return address to reply |
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