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At what stage of hardware upgrade does licence become invalid?
My kids are going down the route of basically 'pimping' the machines and on one of them they are getting a license invalid message. This popped up yesterday but nothing has been added or updated since before Xmas.
We have 5 computers in the household all running Win7 3 individually purchased box editions & 3 on a windows home premium upgrade pack fro original win xp.
on my sons machine I think the only original parts are the case DVD, Processor and HD.
hence my question: At what stage of hardware upgrade does license become invalid?
Also when a new Installation is installed is it OK to keep it for the Owner or is it linked to any specific 'part' of the machine.
bear in mind these are kids and we are not rich enough to keep buying new licenses BUT I do not want to encourage they to do what everyone else seems to do and buy cheap pirate versions