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Originally Posted by David Franklin

Apologies if I'm missing the deadpan sarcasm emoticon, but no, it's not OK. As far as I'm aware, the OS will fail the registration procedure if you try to register twice on machines with different motherboards. (There's an appeal procedure - but you have to convince Microsoft that it's no longer possible to get a replacement motherboard of the same type. Or something like that). And you're only allowed 2 or 3 "major" changes (e.g. CPU type, memory, HD) in a certain time period (something like 3 months) or it will fail to start up.

Though there is actually a certain logic to your suggestion, I don't think Microsoft agree...

I've "up-cloned" my HD from 40GB to 120GB and XP was fine about it, however.

And you still pay for Micro$**t products?!?!