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Legality of using a burned CD with a legal CD-Key?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20263363 views
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I have a friend that keeps a collection of burned Windows CD's; 2000, XP, Vista which he uses to repair peoples computers with. Now he justifies this by saying he uses the CD-Key on their OEM sticker that came with their PC. As long as the installation validates the installation should be 100% lega…

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It's the key that's the important thing, as long as each machine uses it's original key then you're legal. You can use the OEM key if it's available, or the key that came with the disc if they had installed a retail version of Windows. In the latter…

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