I finally had to use the telephone Windows Activation process today. My Windows XP Home Edition (yea, it’s old) install had finally gone through enough changes that it wouldn’t activate via the internet. The problem was relatively painless. I called an 800 number (at least here in the US). It was all voice automation. I answered a few yes/no questions and read a rather long number that was displayed on the activation screen. More yes/no questions then I typed in a rather long number that was given to me. The [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #18: Year End Edition
Another year comes to a close faster than expected. I supposed to do a year end wrap-up or predictions post but I won’t. I’ll stick to the program and just talk about recent stuff. Plenty of wrap-ups and predictions elsewhere. Microsoft released Windows XP SP3 RC1 and after my success installing the Vista SP1 Release Candidate I decided to give it a try. I wasn’t so lucky with this update. During the install it told me it couldn’t copy a file. While trying to research the problem I received some [...] Read the rest »
