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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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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.

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