Im really glad it worked for you. I wish the vendors still had those OEM disks for their more recent products. Fortunately, todays hard drives are much larger and I am able to keep iso files any time I get my hands on an install disk. But complete install disks for Windows 7 and 8 OEM are nearly impossible to find. Instead, the OEMs ship their computers with the ability to write back up Restore CDs which include all the bloatware and are locked to specific hardware.
Anyway, Im glad the Dell OEM worked for you.
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From: "'Richard R. Pope' mechanic_2@... [TekScopes]" <TekScopes@...>
To: TekScopes@...
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: [TekScopes] [OT] Windows XP?
Hello all,
I got the machine up and working. The audio and the display are
working again. I have also finished installing all of the updates. I
still have to install the printers and a bunch of software. I really
want everyone to know just how much I appreciate the help that I was
given. Without it I still would not have this machine up and working.
Thanks a bunch,
rich! :) :)
On 9/8/2014 5:21 PM, machine guy machineguy59@... [TekScopes] wrote:
The OEM disks you buy (eg. from Tiger Direct) are the same basic
installation as the ones distributed by major companies like Dell. In
recent years, major companies stopped delivering these disks but in
the early years of Windows XP Dell still provided them to customers
who asked. I know one of those customers and have disks he obtained.
They ALL leave Microsoft with options for embedding custom logos. Dell
exercised those options. But the installations proceed exactly the
same. But when you first boot the computer the desktop will include
logos from Dell. If you use Windows Explorer to examine one of these
disks you will find a folder titled $OEM$. This folder is provided by
Microsoft for the OEM to place his branding information. I have read
this folder can be removed but never did it for fear of messing up the
installation. It was just too easy to delete the branding after
installation. Again, there is no bloatware installed by any OEM
Windows XP disk I have seen. I think it was a contracting license thing.
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