I bought this new note book computer with Windows XP and a message keeps
popping up on my screen: "5 days to activation. Do you want to activate
now?" What is activation and what happens if I don't activate?

Paul Lamar

-> WP Marsh wrote:

Hi Paul,

'Activation' is a more intense form of registration.  If you don't activate XP, it will stop working.  Plug a phone line into it, select 'Activation', and it
should do it for you via modem connection.

wp marsh

You mean after I paid for this product it is going to stop working and self destruct?

That is like buying a car and not registering it in a month or two it turn to dust.
I don't think that is legal. Why are people so stupid to put up with this?

If I plug a phone line into it in theory there is a back door that nobody
but Microsoft can access. That is a monstrous invasion of privacy.

Are there any lawyers out there that want to get rich way beyond their wildest
imagination?

Paul Lamar

You are right on the money Paul... That's why I use Linux & Mac OS X... for the
large German / American Auto company I consult for, we required this and other
M$ back doors to be removed... There's one "feature" of the product you have  -
when you blue screen (not as often as prior versions - where have we heard that
before?) Your page file - every that was in memory at  the time, will be send to
M$ via an http session. You will not be notified of this transfer of data. If
you have the current XP build, and not one of the earlier builds, the "Feature"
can be disabled.

Best of "Luck" with their Plug and Pray.

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-dave
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What I want to know is; who is looking over Microsoft's shoulder (if anyone)
monitoring all this back door invasion of our computers?
Of course no one is.

How do I disable this "Feature" Dave?

Paul Lamar

Right click on My Computer, select Properties. Select Advanced Tab, Select Error
Reporting, select Disable Error Reporting, select But notify me when...

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-dave
mailto:dave@arb.net
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