On Tue, November 1, 2005 9:38 am, Ian Bruseker said: > Well, I think it may have gotten better with XP (don't know what > version you're talking about, but I have seen bad HAL stuff many a > time in the NT 4.0 days). Now, however, in exchange for better > compatibility, you get the extra fun of having to sacrifice yet > another virgin, I mean, "re-activate your copy of Windows", if you do > such a big hardware change. I helped my brother-in-law put in a new > processor/motherboard/RAM last Christmas and had to go through that. > As it happened, we were doing this during a big family gathering, and > his cousin's boyfriend, who works as a tech in a computer shop, was > there and knew who to call (if memory serves, the poor guy even had > the phone number memorized) and what to say and all the dance so we > could get his copy of Windows back again. Both the tech guy (forgot > his name) and I were gentle, with only the occasional "*cough* Linux > *cough*". :-)
Yeah... about that... I'm pretty sure that was me. On the upside, I've forgotten the activation number as I only work at that shop on saturdays. Dave Grelli _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
