re: Punishing it's customers :( Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 5:48 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22031 messages posted) You didn't just add a hard drive, you added a SATA controller as well, that's a major change. So why did you install SP2? I'm on thwe internet 7 x 24, and never have installed SP2, or any of the other so called critical patches. Also Messenger is easily disabled permanently, just shut down the service. And instead of complaining about performance ask what can be done to improve it. On Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 5:04 pm, Andre wrote: >I have a comment about How >do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?: > > >Having just been through the reregistration process (P.S.> Never add a new hard drive >to XP, it makes you re-activate) I can tell you, not fun. I use my XP Home for >audio and video production, and physically do not have it connected to the internet. > Imagine my surprise to find out that after adding an external SATA drive, that windows >needs to re-authenticate. Of course it tells me that this happened several days >ago. After it has allready locked me out. Do they realize I have to use removable >drives for archiving and editing???? Do they realize that service pack 2 cripples >my non internet enabled computer? And of course I am endlessly removing the "Instant >Messanger" which seems to pop up with helpful hints in the middle of recording which >of course leaves me with glitches in the audio and lost frames in the video. I keep >removing it, and it keeps "Coming Back from the Dead". I'm currently moving all >of my production tools to Mac and Linux (Gentoo), which sadly means all of the great >software companies I love are also going to lose out on my business. *sigh* > Written in response to: Punishing it's customers :( (Andre: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 5:04 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Punishing it's customers :( (Andre: Tue, May 23, 2006, 5:04 pm) re: Punishing it's customers :( (Ricer46: Tue, May 23, 2006, 5:48 pm) re: Punishing it's customers :( (Steve: Tue, May 23, 2006, 5:50 pm) re: Punishing it's customers :( (John: Thu, May 25, 2006, 10:00 pm) re: Punishing it's customers :( (Steve: Fri, May 26, 2006, 7:11 am) re: Punishing it's customers :( (John: Fri, May 26, 2006, 3:40 pm) re: Punishing it's customers :( (Monique Harrell: Sat, Mar 10, 2007, 1:32 pm) re: Punishing it's customers :( (werner: Sat, Mar 10, 2007, 1:41 pm) re: Punishing it's customers :( (Larry: Wed, May 24, 2006, 11:36 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum