Reply #16: It will install on other manufacturers, but it might start to give you...

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30 days to register it. That's might be a funny or cruel joke to pull on someone. I did notice the Dell xp disc was larger in size than the regular xp.

If something goes whacky with my puter, though rare, I reload everything from scratch. My puter doesn't have much on it, so it only takes about an hour for a full reload. I usually reload every couple of months anyways.

I was running W2K on my old machine and I still never DLed any patches or updates.

I also don't use Internet Exploder so that cuts down on a lot of incoming junk.

Since I like to reload frequently, would the M$ system allow me to DL the same updates every couple months or would I get flagged?