RE: Windows XP upgrade question

I believe it is up to 4 (?) of 10 selected hw items (except network
card).  IIRC, either PC World or PC Magazine had an article on it
sometime in the last few months.

Mark Allen
I.S. Manager
Wilkes Telephone & Electric
A Dycom Company
Phone: (706) 678-9565
Email: allenmark@nu-z.net
http://www.nu-z.net




:-----Original Message-----
:From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com
:[mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of
:Wills Mike N TC
:Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:19 AM
:To: 'midrange-nontechmidrangecom'
:Subject: RE: Windows XP upgrade question
:
:
:One of the main things ... the whole OS is spyware.  By
:default, XP will report a lot of the things you do to
:MicroSoft.  It can be turned off, but you have to know how.
:
:>>>No offense, Ken, but you are obviously mis-informed. There is no
:reporting to M$ for information other than what you send (bug
:reports and
:registration) This has been verified by many magazines and
:security experts. The "secret key" is just a string of numbers
:and letters derived from various hardware serial numbers, it
:cannot mean anything to M$.
:
:Also, if you make significant hardware changes, the OS will
:decide that you have installed it on a new system, requiring
:you to contact MicroSoft and persuade them that it's still on
:the same system and to give you a new license key.  Otherwise,
:after some period of time, the OS will stop working.
:
:>>> Yes you can change hardware. I haven't tried it yet, but I had XP
:installed on my laptop (took it off for instability in the video card
:driver) and now I plan on putting it on my desktop. I want to
:see if I have to call M$ or not. What M$ has done is you can
:make significant hardware changes every 180 days. The major
:key is your network card. I don't remember the exact number of
:changes you can make but IIRC you could replace MOBO, Proc,
:RAM, Sound, video, and hard drive and NOT have a problem. To
:me that sounds like a complete upgrade.
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