Advice please - Windows XP Upgrade - how to de-register?

I have a legit Windows XP Pro upgrade disc with all the documentation which
was used on an old PC which has since died. I am breaking it up for spares.
How do I get the upgrade de-registered with Microsoft to allow it to be used
on another machine running on Win 98?

 

I think you phone them and its an auto process by pressing digits on your
phone...have the serial ready!

 

Just stick it in, the serial will work and let you activate. At worse you
will need to phone up and do the automated activation.

Gaz

 

No, at worse you will have to talk to a human and explain to them what
happened. They will give you a new registration code, no questions
asked. The fact you have to do that is considered enough of a
deterrent to people who want to pirate XP en masse; the idea is that
the ordinary joe should not be affected.

nl

 

Its your license, use it how you want, but be fair, and only use it once at
a time.

Gaz

 

I'm sure somebody's figured out how to crack this registration process
by now...

 

So the OP can sell his old computer to himself? As long as he uses some
part(s) of it on the new PC he's OK?

This gets bl**dy complicated doesn't it, I would have thought that he
won't have a problem in practice.

 

I thought that was just what M$ want people to believe, and not in keeping
with European law, or something like that?

Personally, when a bit of paper becomes as vital as a CPU to make a PC work,
then I see no reason why, just like a CPU, it can't be sold on.

 

Only with OEM versions of the software, which you can't buy without
hardware and which is tied to its initial installation. OEM is cheaper
but can't be transferred. A full copy can be transferred as you (not
the machine) then have a full single license though can only be used
on one machine at a time - install it on a new machine and you will
have to uninstall it or wipe it from the old one.