I believe you have five activations without deactivatibg.. if you are no longer going to use that computer, it's best if you DO deactivate in on that one. One thing.. do you still have the install discs?.. or, was it a download?... either way, be sure you will be able to install on the new one. Lou.

for the last question, yes, you should deactivate it. Safe way to do it... install on the new one THEN deactivate on the old one... deactivation is "local"... just on the machine you deactivate on.

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