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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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.
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.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.
I have an MSDNAA version, NO activation for me.