Currently I have XP home. After about 20 installs I can't get a validation over the net. I have to phone to get a validation after the 30 days expires or any time before.I was wondering if I had XP Pro if I can just install XP as many times as I want and not have to call for a validation. I am just tied of calling Microsoft every time.Don't bother asking why I install XP so many times. It just a thing.JimCYWG

Currently I have XP home. After about 20 installs I can't get a validation over the net. I have to phone to get a validation after the 30 days expires or any time before.I was wondering if I had XP Pro if I can just install XP as many times as I want and not have to call for a validation. I am just tied of calling Microsoft every time.Don't bother asking why I install XP so many times. It just a thing.JimCYWG

Same Thing with Pro.....Instead Install XP, Activate it then make an Image of the HDD (or partition) with something like "Active Disk Image"(http://www.disk-image.net/) or "Acronis True Image"(http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/) Then next time you want a fresh install just place the image back on the Drive and TADA! New XP install Everytime!Gary

I will look into that. ThanksJimCYWG

Don't bother asking why I install XP so many times. It just a thing.

Do you say that to Microsoft as well?:(

I too have to telephone activate XP, having installed it many times. At the moment it is not a major issue, but it may come to be one when MS eventually stop supporting it, so if you do love it as an OS, then a disk image would be a wise thing, although to be honest that'll be so far down the line that you'd probably want a more modern OS simply to run the kind of things we'll be looking at then, i.e. by then there may be the new Aerosoft flight sim, newer and better processors and GPUs, and all the stuff like that.Al

Pro won't change anything. If you're running it on the same hardware, though, it should work over the Internet most of the time...

I too have to telephone activate XP, having installed it many times. At the moment it is not a major issue, but it may come to be one when MS eventually stop supporting it, so if you do love it as an OS, then a disk image would be a wise thing, although to be honest that'll be so far down the line that you'd probably want a more modern OS simply to run the kind of things we'll be looking at then, i.e. by then there may be the new Aerosoft flight sim, newer and better processors and GPUs, and all the stuff like that.Al

Microsoft has alrady stopped mainstream support for Windows XP wef 14 April 2009. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173

Mike, the wife says that I install Windows so often that I should have the number on speed dial. :( :( JimCYWG