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Originally Posted by ikthius
Yip I did this, I phoned because my win xp that I bought last year was getting put onto a new machine cause the last one blew up. and I phoned them, no questions appart from:
"you are wanting to activate your windows XP?"
yes
"here is your activation code........."
and that was it.
although they do ask for the first 4 or 5 letters/numbers sequence of your product code to verify it is geniune.
ik
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Yep I've been there and done that, was painless and very quick
Don't forget, as mentioned, you don't have to activate immediately either so you can gain a little extra time there too so hopefully by the time you have to do the registration you will have all your parts in place.