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Old 05-29-2007   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Question about clean installing with upgrade media

"lsproc" wrote
> Its common knowledge now that you can do a clean install of Vista with
> upgrade media. My question is, if you do have a previous copy of XP, is it
> legal to do this method. Would you get thwarted by Activation or WGA?


So far there doesnt' seem to be any problems doing this. Legal - that's a
diferent question including what does legal mean. In any event you are in
compliance with the license agreement provided you do own a qualifying OS.

> I really do not want to go and have an unclean install of Vista from the
> upgrade, though I guess I could get it as nice and clean as possible by
> installing Vista and nothing else (not even drivers).
>
> What would you reccomend?


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