I have a new Compaq AMD 1.4ghz 725US laptop with XP home edition installed. I've installed ECDC5 Platinum, Office97 and some other utilities on it and I forgot that there is some sort of activation with XP. Currently it is a freestanding computer and is not connected to the internet. Is there some sort of grace period when you first turn on the laptop that will let you use the computer before it prevents you from booting up??