I have purchased IBM computer with oem windows xp professional
installed on it. I want to change language version of Windows. It is
now English. I made an experiment. I installed Polish version of
windows from another CD. During the instalaltion I entered product key
from English Version. Installation and registration ended with no
errors. There was no messages that windows is illegal. Looks good but
is it really legal ?

Is any legal solution of my problem apart from buying new windows?
Maybe MUI ? Does IBM distribute MUI for their computers ?

regards,
Damian

I have it on good authority that <dj@ostrow-wlkp.eu.org> said in
news:1160169612.987512.17190@m73g2000cwd.googlegro ups.com...
>I have purchased IBM computer with oem windows xp professional
> installed on it. I want to change language version of Windows. It is
> now English. I made an experiment. I installed Polish version of
> windows from another CD. During the instalaltion I entered product key
> from English Version. Installation and registration ended with no
> errors. There was no messages that windows is illegal. Looks good but
> is it really legal ?
>
> Is any legal solution of my problem apart from buying new windows?
> Maybe MUI ? Does IBM distribute MUI for their computers ?
>
> regards,
> Damian
>

Sounds perfectly legal if the Polish CD is also legal (ie not stolen etc).

--
Jon

Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it

CD is original but borrowed from another PC. Original Windows is
distributed by IBM on recovery partition - there is no install cd.

It cannot be denied that <dj@ostrow-wlkp.eu.org> clearly stated in
news:1160244708.396715.236320@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
> CD is original but borrowed from another PC. Original Windows is
> distributed by IBM on recovery partition - there is no install cd.
>

If you also own the other PC, then no problem IMHO.

--
Jon