{"id":5913,"date":"2021-11-17T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=5913"},"modified":"2021-11-17T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T08:13:40","slug":"how-to-tell-if-windows-xp-pro-is-genuine","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-xp\/how-to-tell-if-windows-xp-pro-is-genuine\/196998.html","title":{"rendered":"\\How To Tell If Windows XP Pro Is Genuine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a used PC with XP Pro installed, running and validated. But the CD was for the MS OS was not included. How do I know if the purchase is legal, and that the seller has not installed his \\os on a another computer?<\/p>\n<p>The key is available in the OS but the tower bears no sticker. How do I know that a format and reinstall will show up genuine, or if the seller has used his XP Pro CD on another computer? Help please &#8211; I&#8217;m 75 and don&#8217;t know these things! Thank you. Robert, South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":68},"question-category":[76],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-xp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}