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Careful....too many phone calls into Redmond and Bill G. will be calling you
back......
calling you a "pirate".
I heard Bill G. is personally notified on the 3rd call.
Then the next activation key they provide you activates a hard disk format
routine....
and at the end of the formatting, a "gotch" message appears on your screen.
;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barrington Bear [mailto:schindlertrading@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:47 PM
> To: Omega List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: win XP: Gary or anyone...
>
>
> I, for one, would recommend _upgrading_ to XP instead of a clean install.
> If you reformat your hard drive, you can't go back. Upgrading, though,
> gives you the option to roll back the upgrade in case things
> don't work out.
> I upgraded from Me to XP on my Gateway Athlon 1400MHz in mid-December and
> had a difficult time with my Colorgraphics video card and Diamond HomeFree
> Wireless network. I ultimately replaced the Colorgraphics card with a
> Matrox G550 and the HomeFree network with a Netgear phone line network and
> things are working again. But when I encountered those problems,
> I was glad
> I had the option to roll back the upgrade if necessary.
>
> I've been very happy with XP since I got my hardware problems
> fixed. XP is
> rock solid and never crashes. It boots in 33 seconds flat. Tradestation
> 2000i works fine. I recently converted from Fat32 to NTFS and deleted the
> 100+ megs of ME recovery information. I'm sticking with XP.
>
> I do have three XP complaints, though...
> -- Scandisk is no longer a program listed in the accessories-system tools
> directory. I am forced to go through the properties screen of My Computer
> to get to it.
> -- When I was replacing my network and video cards, I had to call
> Microsoft
> to get XP "reactivated". XP decided to shut down on me because
> the hardware
> "signature" had changed too much. Easily fixed with a phone call, though.
> -- MS Messenger automatically starts when you start Outlook Express. How
> annoying is that? I read about a registry key fix and tried it, but it
> didn't work.
>
> Anyone want to buy a Colorgraphics Predator Pro PCI dual DVI video card?
> Works great as long as you don't already have a Savage video
> "card" onboard
> your motherboard.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Eggleston" <mikee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Robin Cotten" <rcotten@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Omega List (E-mail)" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: win XP: Gary or anyone...
>
>
> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Robin Cotten wrote:
> >
> > > When you say that you recommend a clean install of XP, do you mean a
> > > clean install of TS2000i or a clean install of all windows
> applications
> > > including TS?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Robin
> > >
> >
> > with windows, reformat and reinstall *everything*
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
>
>
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