I didn't even change or add hardware, I just rearranged my RAM to enable
dual channel support.
At boot, I was told I needed to activate.
They've pushed the envelope way to far with this crap!
I have converted 15% of my network to Linux so far.
The garbage MS keeps throwing out with will be the death of them yet.
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"Al Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Doing this is still a pain. Windows XP allowed you to do clean
> installs on you system several times beforte you had to call. All I
> had to do was change one piece of hardware and I had 2 days to
> activate. I had to call and it costs me 40 cents per minute as they
> would not work with Skype, and I entered the new activation code.
> Shortly thereafter the hard drives started to fail! I bought new hard
> drives, did a clean install and I now have 28 days left to activate. I
> am NOT looking forward to calling them. This feels too much like big
> brother is not just watching everything you do but wants to control
> you.
>
> Al