Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:47:44 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Speaking of upgrades...[WSFA] Re: Odd events
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Most Remarkably, Mike B. wrote:
>Don't change too much of your hardware at once or XP will refuse to run
>until you get a permission slip from MicroSoft (XP's hated "anti-piracy"
>system...the reason I'll never run it on a desktop.  It's on my laptop, but
>I won't be changing the hardware on that).

I'm currently rebuilding Judy's Dell laptop after a total disk
failure.  Dell got us a new disk overnight under warranty, and the XP
validation happened automatically and painlessly.

Now, reinstalling software, that's going to take a while.

Barry