Re: windows activation

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:54:00 -0700

Cross-post when necessary, but never multi-post. Cross-posting is when you
include two or more groups in the "Newsgroups:" section. In this scenario
the message and all responses are seen in all groups that the message was
cross-posted to. In other words any replies will automatically propagate to
the other newsgroup posts.

Multi-posting is when you post the same message to two or more groups
individually. In this scenario the message is seen in the groups it is
posted to, but the responses are only seen attached to the message (unless
you cross-post the reply) in which the response was made. So those that
frequent these groups then need to deal with or re-read the posts. It may
seem like a small thing to keep track of. But some of us actively traverse
50 or more groups. The poster also then must search out all of the posts to
see if there was a response. 

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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Captain James T. Kirk" <CaptainJamesTKirk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote 
in message news:10CCA675-6D36-4F48-A9C9-D886AB5A02C8@microsoft.com...
| yeah, i got a question. i just had to reformat and reinstall windows xp 
home
| again, cuz there was crashing probs and the tech guy who built my computer
| activated windows for me, but in the last few days it has been asking me 
to
| activate and when i hit yes it says its already activated. well, with all
| that i decided to reformat and reinstall windows again. and i was jus now
| getting the last 4 high prority updates and upon reboot and loggin back
| online it poped up and said windows was activated already. i never 
activated
| it, what the heck is goin on here? i cant get mocrosoft to help me at all.
| cuz this is a os copy from my now defunct and fried dell system. they said 
to
| contact them. well, i dont have a dell now. this was built at a local shop
| which we used my os disk from the dell. someone please help. i dont want 
this
| to do the asking to activate again at 7 days from o and it says im 
activated.
| there must be some screwy stuff goin on.

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