Re: win xp comes up with message about pirated software!

In article <4i9m529s2ogilf6d6rr4ms9f26rg393jn7@xxxxxxx>, puck says...
i have a genuine win xp home on my main laptop and genuine xp pro on
main pc all paid up. on my tweaking and testing laptop i have also
used the same coa of win xp pro as main pc and it has ran solid
whenever i needed to use it and even downloaded updates without any
problems. however, last nigth the latest update came up with the
message 'you might be the victim of software piracy, your copy of
windows is illegal'. it takes me to a link to pay £90 to get a genuine
copy.

since this machine is for ocassional use is there any way around it or
do i reinstall windows after a reformat and just don't enable
automatic update? don't really want to spend £90 for a machine that is
used no more than once a month!

Put Linux on it then.


--
Conor,

Same shit, different day.
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