Re: Activation "Every Few Days"

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From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:09:31 -0500

Note that activation, and deferrment thereof, does *not* protect you from
anything. If you're connected to the Internet without a firewall, you can
get Blaster, Welchia, god knows what else, in milliseconds. Internet
connectivity doesn't care if you've activated or not.

IMKernel2 wrote:
> During the installation of XP I had two choices, activate
> now, or be reminded every few days. I chose the latter
> because I had not yet configured a firewall and antivirus
> program, so it was unsafe to permit internet connection.
> I was quite annoyed to see the activation popup appear about
> 30 times in one day as I loaded my other programs. It seems
> that the choice should read "every few minutes" instead of every
> few days.
> It reminded me of the Win98 setup problem and I chose not
> to load any of the five listed ISPs (since I had cable), and it loaded
> all five of them anyway! By trial and error I learned that if I
> selected any number less than 5, it would load those selected, so I
> selected the only one. But deselect all five and whammo, it loads
> all five.

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