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I cliped this from Aug 10 "Microsoft Waters Down Activation" "According to Nieman, the company has plans to offer a "time-based clean slate." A grace period of 120 days between activations will open a window for power users to install Windows on a separate PC than the machine initially activated. This means power users can perform substantial hardware changes without worry. Nieman pointed out that customers are still bound by the End User License Agreement (EULA) and cannot install on more than one PC at a time. Admittedly, this grace period does provide for a watered down version of WPA. Nieman told BetaNews, "What we are doing here is further fulfilling our strategy of erring on the side of the user - even to the extent that our effectiveness might be reduced. Microsoft firmly believes in striking that balance." The Redmond giant has also decided to allow OEMS to ship pre-activated PCs directly to customers. The plan to offer pre-activation has been in the works over several months and requires BIOS information to be constructed in a specific manner. Nieman predicated that mainly large and medium sized OEMs will be able to participate given that constraint. Because the dependency of pre-activated machines rests on BIOS information rather than a hardware hash, the prospect of defeating WPA through installing Windows on machines within the same brand name was raised. Nieman dismissed the idea, stating that the different BIOS information among target PCs would make it unfeasible. The publishing of the technical details behind WPA follows a whitepaper by Fully Licensed GmbH detailing the process. Microsoft had always planned to clarify activation, but believed it would best to wait until final changes were complete. "

drdoug99 is right some people just go nuts over the 4x. I don't mean you. Sometimes if you overclock some motherboards (mine) turn it back to 2x.

Ok try http://www.terratec.net/ttus/ now you want the dmx xfire 1024. You will get 4 speakers. I only tried one game and it worked great. Let me know it you need more help.

I am not saying ThC 129 is wrong. Hi is right. You really need to know where it comes from.

Gee I should go to las vages then with the odds I'm having. 9 out of 10 is WAY to high mate. From the day they started untill now never seen one. Cheers..

I know a friend who got his a few days ago..

A wep page that has some stuff on it. http://www.windowsxp.nu/

They came out with beta 4 if you want it? Let me know I will email it to you..

Hay ThC 129 hows your sound card doing?

Hi dodgeviperrt10, Got 2481,2485

Well for me it would start and then just sit there. Try renameing the file GIMME.DLL just the end *.dl. Sorry dude mine works great after that.

Ok all I did was Reinstall windows me fresh. Nothing else changed. So when I stick a CD in and try to run the file (Setup or install) I get "Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writable" I have NEVER got this. Anyone...?? Forget it I found out. Someting in the reg was pointing to a none dir.

Good God I have 2481 on the other computer and had to make sure and his right. I NEVER even check that out. All they did was just renamed it.

Well now we get three colors Blue,Silver and Olive Green. I just started but so for I like it.

To fade in here, yep d3d, Apg all there. It says RC1 but I think its Pre Rc1.

Thats strange because mine works great. When whistler ask for the disk it sees it fine. Wish I could be more help..

Howdy, I have the drive on IDE 1 slave and my hard drives on a Promise ATA 100. I turned off the 144 in bios. Then said it could boot from ls120 drive. That was it. Asus 815e

I have to agree with ThC 129 when I tried the Cruz in 2465 it was buzzing with every sound. I just a screen saver with sound and after that it worked great. Yet I have to go back to my Philips Edge in the way it sounds. But if you can buy the Philips Edge just to hear it you can always return it. "Keep the Faith"

Well I use Wintv pci FM and works great. I use Win2k306 drivers and Works in Win2k and Whistler

Well he could of just said NO. No matter what you CHOOSE to do it will in no way harm it in any way. I will buy Whistler when it comes out but I will use other ways than MS way. I like the word "WE" he uses. We are just one big happy family here.

Microsoft should have e-mailed you saying the next few weeks and then you get Candidate 1 and 2 in June or July timeframe. A friend of mine did it and got a email saying all this...

Hay ThC129 Last week I went out and bought the Cruz sound card just to check it out because my new Philips card was not work (now is) in whistler YES. I have to admit it worked great not one problem. Seams with each new build of whistler my sound card gets better. You got a real got card.

Try here... http://members.nbci.com/etplanet1

In the the regedit winlogon set to 1. Or maybe try "search" next time.

Well stardock came out witha windowblinds xp alpha2 full of bugs, not sure if its going to be the progam your talking about. This one is intergraded. I have not tried it in 2446 yet..