pendanticist - 11:30 pm on Jan 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

Dell has a licensing agreement with MS which includes the OEM numbers read by the website when you click on Check for Updates. The site verifies those numbers.

They should also be somewhere on the outside of your case.

You will certainly need the alpha-numeric code to plug in when you register your system. Then again, I always do that right away.

[edited by: pendanticist at 11:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 27, 2005]