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   From: philo@invalid.not   
      
   On 12/17/2011 01:40 PM, poachedeggs wrote:   
   > Rather than sell a three year old laptop I have that has Vista on it   
   > when I have two better machines now I'd like it to make itself useful   
   > with Windows XP or Windows 2000. Does anyone here know of a good   
   > source in England for legitimate Windows XP or 2000 with a genuine   
   > license? I've looked at eBay and Amazon and I can see that ending   
   > badly.   
   >   
   > Before anyone suggest either, I'm aware of Linux and of torrenting,   
   > but both I know from experience (three years of it in the case of   
   > Linux) involve hassles that I'm keen to avoid.   
   >   
   > I was thinking of asking a shop near me that does repairs and builds   
   > as I remember being shown a Windows 7 disk they sell for £99, but it   
   > seems that that would have a license that died with the motherboard,   
   > so to speak, and I imagine that if they sell XP too that would be the   
   > same deal. If it was half the price or less that might be fine.   
   >   
   > I know that XP is dead in two years but the idea is to keep this   
   > computer offline.   
   >   
   > Thanks.   
      
      
   I just received a legal XP CD with license from a decommissioned machine   
      
   if you want it let me know   
      
   gmail addy philo565   
      
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