Well tehcnically OEM only need to be sold with hardware, it was never registered with that dell and dell wouldn't sell me a system with no OS at that time, so I would bet MS would be hard pressed to get me on anything, it was installed on one computer only and registered to that computer (so what if it wasn't the system it came bundled with.

and the 13 seconds with from power off not standby or hib.
Win 2000 on the same system was 59 seconds.
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