"Martin Brown" wrote in message ...

On 10/12/2014 13:33, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 13:21:35 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:

Buying the home edition meant you couldn't transfer it to a new PC.

I've got news for you...

as you snipped the important bit, in that case then change my line to
..............you [sh]ouldn't transfer it to a new PC.

That isn't true either. The ones you cannot move to another PC are OEM
versions "not for resale" that are bound to the manufacturer of the PC.

You can only run one copy if you only have one licence but you can move it
to another PC if you have a full Home licence rather than an OEM one.
Various third party tools exist to recover the registration code for when
you have lost the crucial package with the magic key on it.


Well it is the 'professional' version and not and OEM version, and is
legally licenceable to three PCs (yes 3 - I checked with Microsoft when I
got it), and I'm fairly sure that the two PCs in question were loaded from
the same disc originally - though as I've bought two full copies of Win 7
pro this possibly isn't the case.

Andrew