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smoth
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Comp status updated #3

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Ok, so I acquired a used MBO that is from an old acquaintance.
it had a bad secondary ide

so I was forced to LOL GASP upgrade my 80gb ide to a 300gb+ sata drive for my windows drive.

Not a bad thing considering a sata drive will make everything that I do as far as 'shop, bryce and video work all faster.

Right now I am formating it. So hopefully by sunday I will be off this pile of crap dell and back on my pc.
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Post by AF »

wow this is like smoths personal blog.

I dont know if XP has this but in Vista if you goto the drives properties in device manager you can turn on something called advanced performance which speeds it up.
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Post by smoth »

8 windows installs

4 calls to microsoft to reauthenticate on one call the bitch hung up on me.(3 different authentications)

2 holes in the wall

1 headache

I am posting from my machine. just getting all windows patches right now.

IN BEFORE linux fags.
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Post by imbaczek »

smoth wrote:4 calls to microsoft to reauthenticate on one call the bitch hung up on me.(3 different authentications)
And people wonder why windows gets pirated...
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Post by AF »

Luckily Vista activates itself once its installed and connected to the net, it just pops up a balloon saying you've activated followed by a windows update check.

I've only ever had to manually activate once for XP, for which I had a machine on the other end and had to type in lots of 56 digit numbers.
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How are your knuckles?
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Post by Neuralize »

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AUTHENTICATION?
HHAHAHAHAAHAHUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Post by KDR_11k »

AF wrote:Luckily Vista activates itself once its installed and connected to the net, it just pops up a balloon saying you've activated followed by a windows update check.

I've only ever had to manually activate once for XP, for which I had a machine on the other end and had to type in lots of 56 digit numbers.
He said 8 activations. XP autoactivates (or activates at the push of a button) too as long as you haven't activated more than a certain number of times. After a few times you can no longer do that via internet and have to use the phone.

I have an MSDNAA version, NO activation for me.
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