"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:18:46 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:28:28 -0600, Vic Smith
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Do you feel that WGA will report a "false positive" when attempting to
validate your OS, deactivate or cripple you OS, thus requiring you to
call MS to resolve it?


I had that problem with my father in law's PC running XP pro. It
turned his machine into a doorstop.
We called Microshaft and Bob from Bombay was ready to tell us how to
fix it when he figured out this was a Dell. Then suddenly it was $70
for the answer or call Dell. Dell's tech support Biff from Bombay
didn't know that trick so his fix was to reload the system from
scratch. XP's charming habit of putting "documents" in the windoze
directory means they are gone too. Fortunately I moved a lot of these
targets to the D drive for him.


I've done almost 30 XP and Office installations, and I have never seen
docs
placed in the c:\windows directory. Which software placed its documents
there on the machine you're talking(s) about?

It's the docs and setting dir. I recall trying to change it as
default, but it can't be done. Don't know if it gets overlaid on a
reinstall. I don't do reinstalls (-:
But the location of docs is a consideration when devising a backup
scheme which considers a crash of the C: drive.

--Vic

Without exception on the machines I've been involved with, the default
document dir is always My Documents, which is not a subdir of c:\windows.
This can be changed, but it's not something most users stumble across.
Matter of fact, I thought it required the optional Powertoys utilities in
order to do this.

I'm not sure what he's talking about. Let's wait and see.