Some do that and required a truly onerous install procedure. Imagine that machine that had me disabling the onboard serial, parallel, sound, USB and more just to get XP onto the machine. That machine was a true POC!
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I got a computer which turns out has a non-legit Window Xp. It has the sign on it and I was trying to get it off along with making computer faster. I tried installing another XP program onto it but now... I start it up, goes all the way pass the black screen (checking memory etc) then goes to set-up for the xp. Then it says error see log. Then it restarts doing the same thing over again repeatedly. I cannot figure out how to fix this! Please help.

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