On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:59:16 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:op.vsvckfcpeav7ka@steve-laptop...
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:02:05 -0400, Jonathan M Davis
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Given that the other posts list XP with having 23:00 on the day before
rather
than at 00:00 for the dates in the middle, it looks like XP has the
same
behavior as XP. However, it looks like whatever time zone you have your
computer in (if it's really the same as New York, it would Eastern
Daylight
Time at the moment) is not actually EST/EDT proper (either that or the
two
other posts with XP are on SP3 while you're on SP2 and changes were
made
in
SP3 which affect the Windows functions being called). Glancing at the
list of
Windows time zones though, I don't see any cities which would currently
would
be in normal Eastern time but would have been in a slightly different
time
zone (e.g. no DST) prior to 2007. I _thought_ that some of Indiana was
that
way, but if so, they didn't get a special time zone for it in Windows.
IIRC, there was a large problem when the time zone changes were enacted
for XP. I remember originally Microsoft was NOT going to update XP
unless
you wanted to pay them some ridiculous amount (something like $10k) for
a
patch. However, there were numerous tools that could be used to edit
the
time zone information.
So they eventually did update XP (must be they got raided by the common
sense police). I would highly suspect that Nick's system isn't updated
since it's at SP2 (I'm pretty sure the original SP2 was pre- the
timezone
changes) and Microsoft typically stops releasing patches for an older
service pack when a new one comes out.
Nick, you really should update to SP3, there literally is no down side,
except the time it takes to update, and then apply the subsequent
patches
that have been released since SP3.
Hypothetically speaking, if a person was on an unauthorized version of XP
SP2, then they would be blocked from installing SP3 (since the SP3 update
requires validation that it's a legitimate copy of XP). Since MS no
longer
offers legitimate copies of XP and the Windows licenses are
non-transferable, such an immoral person would, as far as I'm aware, be
stuck with SP2.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
What do you mean "non-transferrable"? Full genuine copies of XP are
transferrable, as long as you deactivate the original copy.
Also, XP Pro upgrades are installable over Windows 2000. I have a windows
2000 disc and an XP pro upgrade disc that I used to enable XP-mode on my
Windows 7 home edition system (not the pro version of windows 7). The
copy has SP3 installed without issue.
OEM copies are not transferrable, but those will only work on the vendor's
BIOS key anyways. So they are "technically" transferrable to another
system with the same vendor, but I don't think the license officially
permits it. It also might fail the genuine test. I suspect if you used
the key from the original computer when validating the genuine-ness of the
system (assuming that computer is no longer active), it should work.
The answer is, you don't know until you try. However, I would highly
recommend making an image backup of your system if you do ;)
-Steve
