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In general no it not illegal unless your installing something illegal, like you bought some software and installed it already on your computer. Most software has a legal notice of some kind to let you know how many systems you can use the software on mostly you are only allowed to install it on just one system. Freeware or shareware on the other hand can be installed on as many computers as you want.

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