"Al Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It is Sunday morning and I decided it is a good a time as any to waste
> jumping through the activation hoops. I was pleasantly surprised that
> unlike the last time, it activated automatically online through the
> Internet.
>
> Maybe one of those Vista perfomance updates changed something in this
> department? If it did it they get two thumbs up from me. :-)
>
> Al
>
>
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:04:57 -0700, Al Kaufmann
> <al_kaufmann@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>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
>
No I think it was just a bit of what is my tag line Al
--
Ian
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