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Re: Windows XP

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Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> wrote:
> My DVD player broke on a windows XP laptop so
> decided to fire up an old Windows XP box
> that I bought refurbished in 2012 as a
> backup for situations like this.
> 
> Unfortunately I forgot to  activate
> it then and the other day activation
> wouldn't work online and the telephone
> activation is so fucking complicated and
> cumbersome I decided to go the cracker route.
> 
> After trying a bunch of methods using regedit
> finally one seems to work but won't know
> until 30 days are up.  What a bunch of bullshit.
> MS should just activate all Windows XP boxes.
> What difference does it make?  How many people
> are using XP?  Are they that god damned greedy?
> What a bunch of assholes running that outfit.
> 
> I have a couple of games that run on XP that
> need a dvd player.  This refurb is a Pentium 4
> and it runs so hot it will help heat my office this
> winter.  It's a Dell enterprise unit built like
> a tank so it will last at least another decade.

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