No, you wouldn't have to. You have 6 things that you can change, so if you changed your sound card, put in a new modem, upgraded your video card, popped in a new cd burner, changed out a network card, added in some ram, THEN you changed one other thing, you'd have to give them a call which they'd just give you a code and you'd be back on your merry way.

6 upgrades on a computer is quite a few upgrades to have. People are making it sound worse than it actually is. Like I say before, if I have to change 6 things on my computer, I'll just go buy a new one.

Are you kidding me? I am forced dictation by the almighty fuckin' Bill Gates now as to how much and when I can change shit in my system??! Fuck THAT. I change shit around here all the time. I just swapped out mainboards last night. I WILL NOT ever be told by some corporate fuck how and when I do what I choose to my OWN equipment. 6 upgrades is alot? Yeah, maybe if you bought a fuckin' AOL packaged HP off the fuckin' shelf at Circuit City. Sorry bro.... I ain't buyin' the propaganda for even one second.

Gates has gone too far with this one.... this XP shit is gonna fail big time with all but the most novice of users.

I just installed Win 98SE

Can anyone tell me if it's any good or not?

After being used to 3.1 it is taking some getting used to. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/wink.gif

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Hey Bro, I hear what your saying, but you are in the small Elite group that build and constantly upgrade and alter your puter. This is all about biz and the almighty buck. XP maybe wasn't designed for the small percentage of people that fall into your category, it was designed for the Mass amount of puter uses that make up the rest of the puter user world.

I will keep you posted on my own personal experiences with the new XP as I use it a bit more, but so far I think I like it http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/smile.gif



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It's not just about upgrades bro... what if your network card craps? It happens all the time... What if you just wanna jam another RAM chip in there? Hell, what if you got a removeable hard disk bay? Is XP gonna misinterpret that stuff as upgrades? That's just basic maintenance man...

On a more positive note, for those who get duped into using such a piece of junk, give it a while... the crack teams are already workin' on the situation and there should be a patch or some other way around all of it other than spending the rest of your life on the phone to Microsuck. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/biggrin.gif

Heck, I'm not a novice computer user here, I've been using computers for MANY years now, I'm actually on my 7th computer. Sure, for someone like you, maybe you upgrade all the time, but for most people, they don't require too many upgrades.

I bought my current computer almost 2 years ago. It's a 1-Ghz Athlon with 256 megs of ram, 40-gig HD, Geforce video card, 4X4X32 cd burner. I'm not Mr. Upgrade man where I upgrade this and that, now that it's getting dated, I'm just gonna go out in the next couple of months and buy another loaded down 2-ghz P4 system with the works, like I did when I bought this 2 years ago.

Like I pointed out above, 6 upgrades is still a lot for most people and if it takes a minor inconvenience of a phone call to make to continue using an EXCELLENT operating system, then I'm gonna do it.

Sure, it's kind of a pain in the ass what Microsoft did, BUT if you were in Bill Gate's shoes, I'm sure that you'd all do the same thing yourself. He's being fucked outta money from people, so he has to take measures like that to protect what he has. Anyone out there would do have made the same decision.


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Well, everyone thought ME was gonna be the shit too and ran out and bought it... but I digress... if it ain't broke, don't fuck with it: Win2K Pro. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/biggrin.gif

Just wanted to let you guys know that we just got Windows XP Pro and so far I dont see anything impressive. We are still looking. Oh wait, there is one thing. The fact that you have to register within 30 days or it will just shut off....whatever Win ME. I will stick with it.

Bone, I just discovered that Windows XP has a BUILT IN FIREWALL !!! how can you beat that ??

With a real hardware firewall.

there firewall is a joke.. dont let it mislead you.. download zonealarm..

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For those who insist on using this XP junk OS, it has already been cracked. You can bypass the anti-piracy bullshit that Microsoft attempted to build into it. For how long it took Microsoft to write the anti-piracy code for it, it took no time at all to crack the code. (hackers never sleep) Sad though, really... that you need to crack your OS to make it useable.

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if i found any of my friend using winXP, i will unplug his cdrom, floppy, mouse, and keyboard. Take off his sound card and one ram. Then push the power on. Now it's 6 changes. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/eek.gif

I think Amputate, is on the right track here.

I read some stuff about XP, about if if you have to reinstall it or something. Anyway you get something like 6 to 10
installs. If you change or add hardware it takes away from you r installs. MS calls it something other tan installs.
Then you have to call MS and get a new code. Can see it now, they will start charging for the new codes.

Working on computers I've run into problems were you have to install windows 3,4 or more times. So you will be
on the phone getting new codes and just the phone bill could be high.

NOPE am just now through running and testing
win2k, but I prefer win98, so I'll most likely put win98 back on my other Puter.

I don't need the latest and greatest.
I can do my work just fine with 98 or 2k.

Jim

Some of the things you change uses more than one. I tthink the network card is like 4.

Okay I'm convinced after one week installing all shit I discovered that WinXP Pro sucks like hell ! This shit has cost me $250 bucks (oem version) and a lot of time. My advice DON'T buy it !!!

time comes
gotta go to take windows xp and windows office xp for 2$ http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/smile.gif

hehe.... always gotta do it da hard way...