Can Windows xp gold still be found, and brought this version has no service pack's intergreated. if so where.

Only if you purchased the Original release.

No legal forms of download exeist as far as i know.

However you maybe able to find an one online somwhere...maybe ebay...

|Drew|

Thanks i got stuck with the 2002 version with sp1

also how can tell the Original release version from the sp1 version

ill send u a pm in a bit. be sure to check it!

guesses the pm has something 2 do with warez

Just a little question out of curiosity.

When we purchase a computer with WindowsXP installed (along with the XP CD) or if we buy the package from a store, what is it that we're paying for? Is it the license only? or are we also paying for the media?

I would personally think that we are paying for the license, since there are other products that we can find in stores that we can also purchase online for the same price (example: Norton products).

your paying for both the media & liscense, microsoft doesnt pay its developers millions to produce a liscense for u, of course your paying for the media, the only 1s that say your paying for the liscense is the 1s that have a copy or 2 pirated

MCT Im not looking for a warez version i just thought that you could still buy the service pack free version

never said u were famer

i just said, i suspected thats what the pm was about

... of course your paying for the media, the only 1s that say your paying for the liscense is the 1s that have a copy or 2 pirated ...

These are *really* hot news - so actually, when we strike a Volume License Deal with MS for e.g. 2000 XPPRO licenses, we are entiteled to 2000 shrink wrapped packages with CDs and little booklets etc.?

Wow!

Hey Famer,

It the past it has been used as an excuse to launch personal hostility against me when I joined other forums - but I hope that will not occur here since what I am posting is done in a sincere bid to help.

The only snag is that you seem to be based in the US.

I have a shrink-wrapped copy of XP Pro retail I won at an MS conference 2-3 years ago - (hence SP free version).

I would consider offers from anyone but they would have to be of 100 Sterling minimum.

how can you tell gold version my xp folder is labled version2002

Famer, look in the root of your CD. If you have a file called

WIN51??.SP1

then its a SP1-included CD. If it don't have that file, then you have the gold release (without SP1).

And as for "Version 2002" - all versions of XP are called that. Right from gold to SP2, it is still "Version 2002".

prathapml i got that version with sp1 oh well i hope i can find a gold version

If 'gold' means without service packs - then this is a 'gold' version;

unregistered, unsused, unwrapped, retail boxed full version, completely legitimate from Microsoft staff, to me, for winning a compo on the day of a conference.