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Thanks.<br />
These pages contain samples of different types of CoA's:<br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/howtotell/content.aspx?pg=coa&displaylang=en" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/howtotell/content.aspx?pg=coa&displaylang=en</a><br />
<a href="http://www.technibble.com/how-to-tell-what-type-of-windows-xp-cd-or-license-key-you-have/" rel="ugc">http://www.technibble.com/how-to-tell-what-type-of-windows-xp-cd-or-license-key-you-have/</a>
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You're welcome<br />
As a quick aside the keys on the machines probably won't be needed if you are installing the manufacturer's OS as they should automatically activate using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Locked_Preinstallation" rel="ugc">SLP</a>
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Say a &nbsp;government agency donates a handful of laptops to a non profit corporation. &nbsp;The laptops hard drives have no data or operating system, but the license key is visible on the sticker on the underside of the laptops. &nbsp;Can windows be reinstalled legally by the non profit?
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Say a  government agency donates a handful of laptops to a non profit corporation.  The laptops hard drives have no data or operating system, but the license key is visible on the sticker on the underside of the laptops.  Can windows be reinstalled legally by the non profit?

Do Windows licenses transfer?/coorporate donation

Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers. For large systems, the operating system makes sure that different programs and users running at the same time do not interfere with each other. The operating system is also responsible for security, ensuring that unauthorized users do not access the system. Operating systems provide a software platform on top of which other programs, called application programs, can run.

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.