Re: Activation "Every Few Days"

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From: IMKernel2 (fauxaddy_at_thistime&.place)
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:48:38 -0800

Yes, I know. That's why I wish MS didn't set the activation
popup to appear every boot until I had some time to setup other
more important things like a firewall, and an antivirus system.
Better yet, why couldn't they be truthful and set it like it says=
"remind me every few days."

To me it's like the ultimate show of greed..."do it now so we
know we've got our money...you can load your programs later!
Ok, I'll get off my soap box, for a few minutes anyway.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:u2FbWJVCEHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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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