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To: Sam Citron who wrote (18956)	5/8/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>What would happen if I wanted to buy a new PC w/o Windows (assuming one were available) and simply transfer Windows95 from my old computer to my new one?<<< Although the license might not say so, it would be legal. However, it would not work, in my experience. To get all the features you need for modern very large disk drives and so forth you need win95 osr 2.5 oem version. Even if your last pc was a recent purchase, and you have this disk, it might not install. That's the 'oem' part, which seems to be specific. I tried updating some drivers on my laptop (for which I also have win95, I actually own about six copies of win 95 because of this exact problem) from my new disk I got with my tower model, and win95 objected. In fact it claimed that it was on a counterfeit disk, which was not true. It just 'knew' what machine it was for, as far as I could tell. The non-OEM version does not have the problem, but that version is crap. I have that disk, but it does me no good. Good Luck (dealing with the monster,) Chaz