re: Punishing it's customers :(
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 11:36 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1327 messages posted)
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/tune-05.html
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?:
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>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*
>
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- Punishing it's customers :( (Andre: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 5:04 pm)
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