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
 
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