That shouldn't be a problem since I have a copy of XP Pro, and the site did say it was for XP Pro w/SP2. Thanks for letting me know. Unless anyone else says differently, I'm going to proceed on this assumption, once I have the money to buy it of course. :-D
That's probably not the same thing... Windows XP comes in at least three flavors, and the CD has to match the type of key you have. If you bought Windows off the shelf you have a retail key, if it came with your new Dell or Compaq (or whatever) then you have an OEM key, and if you swiped it from a major company's corporate IT department it may be an open or volume key. The CD you have is probably either retail or OEM and it's very unlikely that it will work with the volume license key you found.
Yeah, the copy I have is OEM. I don't own a single retail copy of Windows. I built this rig myself, so I know exactly what it's got and what it can do.
As for the VLK, I've been doing research for a while, and when I found Open License keys for sale for XP Pro, I was wondering if it was the exact same thing as a VLK. The VLK is just a special key designed to work with XP Pro only, but any copy of XP Pro.
So I'm not worried about the compatibility issue where keys are concerned. If the Open License is the exact same thing as a Volume License Key, and the ones I saw for sale, I think through CDW is where I found them, are genuine keys, which most likely they are, then I shouldn't have a problem.
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