sorry, disragard this post and refer to my previous post entitled "Windows XP=$200/Any way around it". I must have hit new discussion instead of reply. My apologies.
I can't reinstall the emachines backup disk for a somewhat complicated reason. Oh well, I'll just exaplin it even though it won't matter. I originally had the emachine computer, I thought it sucked so I bought all new parts to my computer. The only thing I kept was the hard drive which had windows me. I'm not too keen how how computers work with the partitions and file systems, so I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working with my new computer. So I ended up taking it to a shop. The guy installed a different version of windows me (probably illegaly as I found out later on). I'm not complainging but I don't want to try to use it to upgrade.
As for the OEM version, how does this differ from the one that comes in the box? How does it come? Is it illegal? Will I be able to register it? What makes it so much cheaper? Thanks for the help so far. ![]()

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