Is there a way to disable activation on windows xp? I love the os, but hate anything i have to put my real information in. Im just very secure type ' Thanks

Microsoft does not collect information about you specifically. They collect information about your CPU (central processing unit). Hard-drive, monitor, RAM, etc. You must activate Windows XP after 14 days otherwise it will cease to operate. But you have the option or not to register your PC with your name and company. This information is done after you activate Windows XP. Along with that this confidental information is not send to Microsoft. This new Activation Software is to prevent piracy.

Who are you trying to kid ? This "activation" scheme won't even hinder wholesale pirating. It will simply target casual/custom reloads onto same/other puters and laptops by generally supportive users (not that windoze reloads aren't anything but grim drudgery anyway). Oh well, it's what "customers asked for", right ? XP spyware corrals our computers under M$FT's consent and control. The EULA, now just a rental agreement, is inappropriate for the consumer market and reduces their "valued" customers to digital serfdom. The ROFLMAO part of all this is the stark pointlessness (for users) of this looming downgrade. STILL waiting to hear why WHY we should bother with XP. Boy, it'd sure be cool if SOMEone would cite some gotta-have-it new feature or capability in XP...besides greasier leverage from a crooked monopolist's ever rustier treadmill. ...oh, and save your righteousness for the convicted.

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