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Story: PC makers find ways to extend XP's life

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Problem...

We've got a few machines in the office from Dell. They were, I assume, "downgraded" by request (I wasn't involved with the order). They arrived here with XP installed and configured, licensed and patched. But the sticker on the side of the machine and the DVD that came with it are for Vista.

If you get a "downgraded" (sorry for the quotes - I still see moving to XP as an upgrade), how do you go about reinstalling in the case of a system failure? As far as I can tell, only Vista license details are supplied which won't be accepted as part of an XP install.

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