Re: Just what is XP Black???????

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:53:01 -0700, Ken Springer
<wordworks.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, Ken,

As I mentioned in the post, since it's bogus I'd install it somewhere that I
wouldn't feel bad about formatting the drive it's on to get rid of it. If I
had an extra computer to play with, I'd install it there. :-)


Your choice, of course. Mine, as I said, would be to stay away from it
completely. I wouldn't even want it on a separate drive on my
computer. Malware, if it's infected, *can* impact things on other
drives.


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:39:14 -0500, Bob I <birelan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It a hacked version, see link.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22XP+Black%22&btnG=Google+Search

Ken Springer wrote:
I've got a nephew who had come up with a copy of XP Black. He is after me
and his dad to install that on our computers.

I've done a Google search, and one here in the XP newsgroups, and cannot
find out exactly what it is.......or isn't. Just discussions as to whether
it's bogus or not. Even in this newsgroup area there's an argument about the
"bogus" issue. :-(

Bogus or not, what *IS* it? This is what I want to know.

If it is bogus, I might make a separate boot partition (have to learn how to
do that! LOL) to experiment with XP Black. But I've no intention to use is
as the regular OS. Too damn many problems with the real thing, I'm not
masochistic enough to want to mess with additional problems from a bogus
version!


Since there is no official Microsoft version with that name, it's
clearly bogus. I know nothing about it, and can't provide any details,
but if it were me, I wouldn't dream of installing something like that
on any computer I owned. It's just looking for trouble.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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