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Well, I am taking the plunge.
I am updating my old IBM T23 laptop from Win2k to WINXP Pro.
It's a great little laptop, though technology long passed it by,
and at the moment it only has 384KB of memory. If the update
"takes," I'll update the RAM to 512KB.

This is the machine I let household guests use.

Gosh, if it works out, I'll be as up to date OS-wise as the great
computer gurus here.
Before you run Windows Update, you may want to read this slowly,
three times:

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/071129/#story1

And don't give me any crap about how your situation is an exception
to what the writer is talking about, or how your copy of XP is
legit so none of this matters.
Since my copy of XP Pro was sent to me as a gift from MS, I am not
concerned about its legitimacy.
Wrong. That's like saying warrantless surveillance is cool because
you haven't broken the law.

Read the article. WGA can still cause nightmares, and there's nothing
you can to once it begins. You'll wish you'd paid attention.
I'll call MS if I have those sorts of problems.

Harry, I expected this. It's pathetic, really. The article is about a
piece of the windows update software which is essentially spyware.
Microsoft **WANTS** you to have it, and if you call them, they will run
you around in circles trying to get you to keep it on your system.

Stop pretending to know more than non-MS experts, and read the article.
Did you accept the license agreement?



Yes. The original license agreement for Windows XP Pro never mentioned
something that would come along later: "Windows Genuine Advantage".


Well, the Thinkpad upgrade to XP Pro seems to be going well. We're up and
running, and we just automatically downloaded and installed 103 "upgrades"
from Microsoft. Now we'll go over to the Lenovo site and see what else we
need.



Nobody ever claimed you WOULD have problems. Rather, various sources point
out that WGA is neither necessary nor useful (to you), and that there are
other ways to obtain the updates you DO want.