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#26 2006-04-26 5:33 pm
- Freezer mac
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Re: Windows XP Warning Stickied on Your Desktop
microsoft should put a sticky on all machines running windows that says :
Warning: You are running windows.
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#27 2006-04-26 10:07 pm
- HackerJax
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Re: Windows XP Warning Stickied on Your Desktop
I don't know where this information that the window with the warning is fixed and can't be closed. Its basically a system tray popup.
You can uncheck the component during windows update and not download it, you can also disable it using a few different methods.
Annoying yes, but there are only two kinds of pirates out there, the ones who knowlingly pirated the software and will go to lengths to remove this *check* and the ones who unknowingly bought a bootleg copy from a shady dealer.
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#28 2006-04-26 10:17 pm
- mmonte
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- Registered: 2003-02-09
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Re: Windows XP Warning Stickied on Your Desktop
Gatchaman wrote:
If this doesn't work, unauthorized copies of Windows XP will be turned into Microsoft Bob.
...and the mountains rising nowhere...
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#29 2006-04-26 11:49 pm
- pcguy
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Re: Windows XP Warning Stickied on Your Desktop
zerocool90 wrote:
Thats because the Chinese know that communism wont work by itself ..they want all our money, so theyll use thier "natural resources" (ahem, read 1 billion people) to do the worlds cheap manufacturing labor, and keep using the moniker of "Communism" to keep themselves in power..thats all it comes down to for them is staying in power.
All it comes down to for them is staying in power! so is there any difference then to all those senator and congressman in D.C.? or for that matter your local official?
Do not settle for the world in shades of grey
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#30 2006-04-27 6:28 am
- Pariah
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Re: Windows XP Warning Stickied on Your Desktop
This wont just annoy pirates. You can run XP without activation for 30 days and a decent amount of people take advantage of that to do temporary installs to test hardware and hardware configurations.
Remember you only get a limited amount of reactivations before your copy of XP dies so you don’t want to activate until you are sure your hardware is good to go.
As has been said already, just another annoyance that will bug legit users while real pirates just krack and get on with life.
"and it's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Barack Obama
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