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To: Alex Molnar who wrote (30164)	11/9/2002 9:11:59 AM
From: Fargonaut	of 110653

I guess I don't care for the whole idea of having to call Microsoft and clear it with them before I can use a product of theirs that I have already paid for. If you don't call and "activate", the OS will quit in 30 days. If you make 4 hardware changes you have to reactivate. The idea is so you won't put the OS on another machine. This process revolves around the file wpa.dbl. which stores hardware changes and activation date. The hack is that you can replace this file with older, stored versions of it, and prevent it from working. extremetech.com I did a web search and can't find the article that said that wpa.dbl was in w2000 sp3. It doesn't sound like it would be too hard to live with if you already have it. If you are going to put the OS on another system, you would use the CDs I would think, and make a clean install. Then you wouldn't have wpa.dbl on your disk. (Of course I can't recommend this because it is counter to the EULA.) It's just that I think that the activation thing is a step in the wrong direction. Open source efforts are improving, and since I am not a big gamester, I think my next OS will be some kind of Linux. F

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