Garry Newman's Portable Workstation: A Hard Drive

Re:Garry Newman's Portable Workstation: A Hard Drive by georgemcbay on Sunday April 22, 2012 @04:52PM (#3876048)

I am not an expert on Windows Activation, but I think that this depends upon what kind of license you have. I know Technet/MSDN install keys allow you to use the same key on up to X different machine "fingerprints" depending upon what type of subscription you have, so in this case I think he'd be OK. It should just look like 2 of X activations on different machines.

If you tried doing the same with an off-the-shelf Windows 7 upgrade install or an OEM install, I'm pretty sure you'd run into problems, though, unless the two machines were identical from the point of view of Windows Activation.

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Re:Garry Newman's Portable Workstation: A Hard Drive by gouranga on Sunday April 22, 2012 @05:05PM (#3876091)

No it's absolutely fine. Once activated, it's pretty much 100% ok if you move it around.

It used to be an issue in Vista days but no longer - they have relaxed most requirements.

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Re:Garry Newman's Portable Workstation: A Hard Drive by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday April 22, 2012 @05:47PM (#3876202)

I think it's mostly OEM editions that are restrictive. "Standard" licenses give you more freedom.

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