Windows Xp Designed With Warez!

That's so good :-)

[Lobo]

[techrepublic.com.com...]

This must go down as the funniest / ironic info this year so far...

[rocknbil]

And they're right, I just opened a wav along that path and there it is!

This whole nagware issue has me so p'ed off I can hardly see. I BOUGHT a valid version of Win XP with my IBM. The only restore I get is a piece of crap CD that installs a CORRUPTED registry. IBM is no help. I had to do a build of my own without Symantec crud just to get it to work.

Now, using the ORIGINAL KEY sold to me by IBM, I get the piracy nagware on every update. And I haven't pirated JACK! MS says to go to IBM, IBM shrugs and says to do a system restore (yeah right, and render my perfectly running comp WORTHLESS) so what does someone do? Fork over the $150 for a key or hack this crap up and shut off automatic updates?

You can gather by my reaction what I'm doing until I can compile a 100% Linux system that provides all the software I need. This is the biggest mistake Microslop ever made, and stops NOTHING, except making the those of us that always **intended** to drop this OS really motivated to do so once and for all.

[mcavic]

I get the piracy nagware on every update

Is it saying you have a pirated version, or is it just installing the Genuine Advantage thing each time you update? I bet the latter, and it does that for everyone every couple of weeks.

[rocknbil]

Yes and yes, and it's not every couple weeks, it's every few days. It's easy enough to remove, but down comes a new update and there it is again. The real butt-burner is I KNOW I paid for a valid license. :-(

[trillianjedi]

Hehe - that's fantastic.

I bet there's one musician currently queuing at his local music store to buy a legitimate copy of Soundforge ;)