if anyone can help out, that would be quite swell.

I have a hijacked one that bagged me for being illegal. Oops.

yea, i wanna try and avoid that

It's only a mild incovienence. I'll find a serial crack for it eventually.

pam said:

geez it is so gonna hurt Microsoft if someone pirates a copy of windows and takes $150 or whatever they cost outta Bill Gates pocket,haha

ya no shit, ha

Have you tried bittorrent or anything like that, I know a ton of people on limewire have that shit. Never seen any software on slsk though

After years of hassles with pirated versions, I finally bought xp....I havent had a single problem since.
Pirated xp sucks because you cant update to service pack 2 or anything else w/o a serial#.

I have yet to install SP2, I heard you have to back everything up on your machine first.That will be a pain in the ass. But support for SP1 ends Oct 10, SO I gotta get to doing that shit soon

Sp2 installed no prob for me, but it took a while.
Dunno if it has anything to do with it being a legit copy.

powerkok said:

Did you have to back up everything first though?

powerkok said:

All you need is an SP2 friendly key. Mine gives me no trouble.

dwellingsickness said:

not at all.

menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:

Ahh ya that was my prob, as well as many others having the same key, someone prolly already reg'd the key.

pam said:


you can remove the WGATray item from startup and also delete the .exe file entirely. there's no way to remove the program (which goes against microsoft's stance on malware) but you can disable it.

oh yeah I forgot that a plain vanilla key will need you to activate. I have some sort of coporate key that does not need to be activated. It never gets checked against a database online.

yeah i have corporate xp and office. i also have a corporate version of symantec antivirus that doesnt even have a cd key but i stopped using that long time ago.

I've been LiveUpdate'ing my NAV for years (I have a crack that doesn't expire until 2054) and all the sudden they got smart and told me my subscription is bad.

I need to find a new version but every one I download doesn't work. I've never had a virus before so I keep putting it off.

heheh....never had a virus, or never known you had a virus?

The first one.

I find that amazing, especially with all the shite you look at!!!!

This is why one day, I wish for a Mac.

use linux

menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:

or a sweet volume licensed version like I have

arilliusBM said:

x2

or Mac OSX if you can afford a Mac

Here

You have to sign up on that forum though.

DreamingInExile said:

I have one of those too, works fucking great I can update all I want and dl all the shit I want off the MS website. Suckers!

powerkok said:

I don't really go to dangerous places. And if I do, I usually turn up my defenses.

I use IE, too.

A.Nolan said:


try and use the 'bug me not' firefox extention.

DreamingInExile said:

but who can?


if this guy cant protect his windows compy, i dont think Linux would be right for him.