Re: Can't activate a copy of office pro 2003

"Rob Giordano \(Crash\)" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:#e7x1fPAHHA.4592@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

And computer sellers should stop installing all their "value
added" crapola. Sheesh...try and buy an assembled machine with
JUST what you want on it...impossible.

I never care, I use another machine (recently I used my desktop as I'd
purchased a new laptop) to go to the manufacturer's site and download
all needed drivers, burn them to a CD, create restore disks per
manufacturer's instructions and then slip in my retail copy of XP home
or pro (home for the laptop, pro for the desktop), partition, format
and install a fresh installation then add only the software I want.

I wouldn't even bother with the restore disks but I'll use them if/when
I sell the machine to put it back to original specs.

I know that a 200G hard drive will contain 190G of crapware so I don't
even waste time looking at it now.


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