To remedy this situation I foolishly thought buying an authentic copy of win
xp home addition would be the answer. I put in the new disk and it says that
I cannot upgrade. It sounds like I will have to wipe my computer just to
change the OEM to this one. I would really hate to do that. Someone please
tell me that I can just install this new one without deleting all the files
on my computer and reinstalling. I paid microsoft the money why should I
still be punished?