Did you hose your PC/Laptop this week ??

actually the only real problem i have had was after playing simgolf i need to reboot. but I am still loving how well 7 operates for me.

 

XP and Vista phone home every 14 days unless you disable WGA. (windows genuine advantage)



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WGA was a little surprise inserted into Windows XP service pack 2 about 7 years ago. At first, it "phoned home" at every boot up. When people complained, they pulled it back to once every 14 days. It's simple enough to remove, if you do a search for "remove wga" you'll find a utility on all the major shareware sites that removes the feature from XP and Vista. But this has been going on for years.

Like the previous poster, I'm using Ubuntu for my primary OS. My computer came loaded with Vista. I just purchased and installed
XP on a partition, so I can use it for the stubborn commercial Windows games that I have that won't run in Ubuntu, although a lot of Windows games in fact will. I have no anti-virus, no anti-spyware stuff on my system..I simply don't need it.

 

Windows 7 is very fast for me. However, my laptop came with it, and the specs are very overkill for what I do (even though i only paid $350 for the machine).

Windows 7 is a resource hog and it goes without saying just from the makers track record.

 

There is already a patch to go over the stuff on 7. Woohoo piracy

 

I run XP on my home unit and surf with FireFox. I LIKE IT!

I have somewhere around here several Linux disks. Think I'll try one or more in this goofy Laptop I have....

 

HUH. Dell proprietary stuff. Linux disks won't boot it.

Gotta get a USB Wireless adapter and a power brick to run it in a truck.