This is a pretty good overview of the issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage.

-- Tom.

wrote:
This is a pretty good overview of the issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage.


Man! That is an ugly thing!

I was giving some idle thought to moving from W2K to XP sometime in the
future but I'm going to give that some thought and study how to avoid
WGA if I do that.

I'm not using illegal software but that is more than I could handle.


Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

I'm not using illegal software but that is more than I could handle.

Yeah, tell the auto updater not to load a specific update, and check a box
telling it never to ask again. Yeah, sounds like WAY TOO MUCH work.