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LennonCook - the error handling in XP uses 2000's code - therefore 2000 is just as good - I never get blue screens of death in 2000. Also, your description of using the XP disc once is very misleading. What you have to do is: after installation, you have 30 days to "activate your windows". This means you click activate, it contacts an MS server, authenticates your version of windows and that's it. You don't have to type in anything. I never made any hardware changes after I installed XP Pro(have removed it since) so this is based on http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...activation.asp . This says that if you make a significant change to your hardware, the computer hardware ID will of course hash (if you don't know what this is, read about hashing functions in a security book ) to a different number. Therefore MS has no way of knowing that it is still the same computer that you are running that particular copy of XP on. Therefore you must reactivate by telephone. You DO NOT have to buy another license! That would be RIDICULOUS and even Micro$hit knows it! All they want to do is be sure that during no part of that copy's life, does anyone but you use it.
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02-13-2003, 01:29 PM | #33 |
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well i run xp home and i have no major problems it runs great and never crashes for me. The programs i have run have crashed a few times but thats about it. Some older games don't work well or don't work, and example is ff7 at the chocobo rases it crashes under xp and wont continue. One thing you want to make shure of though is you have the resourses to run the os. for once though microsoft actually put the minimum speks as the minimum required to run smoothly. As for upgrading i believe that it is actually only a certain number of components in a certain ammount of time that make you contact microsoft. If you let the time pass or put in everything at one it should be i believe. But then again i haven't really done any major upgrades to my system sence i installed xp, put in a new graphics card and a new burrner is all.
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LennonCook - the error handling in XP uses 2000's code - therefore 2000 is just as good - I never get blue screens of death in 2000. Also, your description of using the XP disc once is very misleading. What you have to do is: after installation, you have 30 days to "activate your windows". This means you click activate, it contacts an MS server, authenticates your version of windows and that's it. You don't have to type in anything. I never made any hardware changes after I installed XP Pro(have removed it since) so this is based on http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...activation.asp . This says that if you make a significant change to your hardware, the computer hardware ID will of course hash (if you don't know what this is, read about hashing functions in a security book ) to a different number. Therefore MS has no way of knowing that it is still the same computer that you are running that particular copy of XP on. Therefore you must reactivate by telephone. You DO NOT have to buy another license! That would be RIDICULOUS and even Micro$hit knows it! All they want to do is be sure that during no part of that copy's life, does anyone but you use it.[/QUOTE]Funny thing Ive never been promted for such an reactivation. And ive uppgrade my computer to Oblivion... Hummm...
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Thanks for all the help [img]smile.gif[/img] From what I have read here I think I will keep 98 although my main reason for thinking of getting XP was because of, like Larry said, the fact that it runs better with games and it has a better WMP but after reading about the spywear and info stealing WMP I think I'll stick with what I know...
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Dual boot 2k and win 98. Keep the file system as FAT32 and you can't go wrong [img]smile.gif[/img]
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also: WMP Privacy Issues and of peripheral interest: Why I hate Microsoft [ 02-15-2003, 01:42 PM: Message edited by: Sir Krustin ]
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