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Skriven 2007-01-23 21:56:20 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
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TIM RICHARDSON -> JOHN HULL wrote:
 TR> On 01-23-07, JOHN HULL said to TIM RICHARDSON:

 JH>> TIM RICHARDSON -> JOHN MASSEY wrote:
 TR>> On 01-23-07, JOHN MASSEY said to STAN HARDEGREE:

 JM>>> Stan Hardegree -> John Massey wrote:
 JM>>>> We'll see how this goes.


 JM>>>> TO BE CONTINUED:


 SH>>> This is beginning to sound like my toilet story, old friend.



 JM>>> Yeah, it does. Kemis likes John Hull's idea of just beefing up her
 TR>> machine
 JM>>> and installing 2000.
 JM>>> And you know if it makes the boss happy, every body is happy.



 TR>> Memory is cheap out here. You can take a decent computer up to a gig
 TR> for
 TR>> around $100 or less.


 TR>> As for Windows XP Pro.......I recently bought it and have it on my
 TR> older
 TR>> machine as well as the newer one. Of course, I made a backup disk of it
 TR>> and a
 TR>> friend of mine also made a backup of it for me. Which means I have
 TR> *two*
 TR>> backups. But..........I only need one. (nudge nudge)



 JH>> Nice idea, but you have to "activate" XP, and if you restore to a
 JH>> different machine, the CRC check won't be the same, which will
 TR> trigger the
 JH>> activation stuff.


 TR> A friend of mine got a copy of XP Pro off the Internet somewhere, and was
 TR> using it. at some point it screwed up and he couldn't even boot the
 TR> machine.


 TR> I had recently bought XP Pro and installed it on my new Western Digital
hard
 TR> drive, so I took it over to him and he formatted his drive, installed
Windows
 TR> XP Pro from my `original' and it worked perfectly. He made me two copies
of XP
 TR> Pro as backups.......and `they' work perfectly.

You can use the same CD to install XP on hundreds of PCs. The only problem you
will run into is that you will need hundreds of unique "CD Keys" to "activate"
them.

Ed

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jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human
character, the inference would be, that there is not
sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that
nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them
from destroying and devouring one another."

-- Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Federalist No. 55,
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