Subj : Windows Update
To   : Bob Bainbridge
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Wed Feb 26 2003 06:19 am

Hello Bob!

25 Feb 03 20:15, you wrote to Rolf Edlund:

 RE>> A friend of mine has a copy of W2K Pro, that he got
 RE>> from someone on the net. Now he wonders, does he dare
 RE>> to click on the Windows Update icon ?

 BB> I wouldn't worry about it. Win2k doesn't use the Activation scheme
 BB> incorporated by Microsoft that checks your installed ahrdware.

2 points..

A. He was saying he has a less than legal copy of Win2k.

B. I myself run WinXP, a very legal copy.. This past Friday out of necessity, I 
had to replace the motherboard, CHIP and video.. Only original hardware was the 
2 hard drives, the floppy, the CD burner and DVD reader drives, new motherboard 
has built in sound and LAN, old one I had the LAN and sound on PCI cards. Old 
memory configuration was 3 DIMM chips 256m each PC100, new one is 2 DIMM chips 
512m each PC133. Oddly enough with this much of a hardware change, I did not 
have to "re-activate".

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