Hi Kylde,

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 21:39, Kylde inscribed thus:
> awww come on., that's just fanboy rubbish Derrick, activation is a
> pita, but it's a minor quibble (OS activation, let's not get into
> Norton etc <g>)

Fine ! I agree activation is a PITA.

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > When the activation/registration service is unavailable,
> > the program version one has is no longer supported, or the
> > company for some reason refuses to authorise the installation,
> > one has paid for a bunch of useless code, and the machine will be
> > unusable.

My point being, why the hell should you have to go through the 
activation rigmarole just to replace the hard disk.  And yes I 
appreciate that there was already a copy of XP on the disk that 
didn't belong to that machine!

But Jim said that he was the owner of both machines and licences!

-- 
Best regards:
             Derrick.
             Pontefract Linux Users Group.
             plug at play-net.co.uk

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