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Adam Ball
I have just had the frankly easy job of putting a PC together for my dad to use downstairs. I had some (dated) parts lying around, so I decided to use them. The build was flawless, with it going together. However, it was the software side where things went wrong. Apart from the XP CD reckoning that a PGA370 Celeron was a 486DX, and that I had 16mb RAM, it mostly went well. Until I came to enter my Product key. It was an OEM copy of XP thawas brand new, not been registered with anything else.
It told me that my CD was Bit-Torrent special and that I ought to be ashamed of pirating a copy of Windows. A quick phonecall to Microsoft, and I was away. I got Xp installed OK, and installed my pack o’ Utils, which I make and store safely on a CD. It’s just a webpage on a CD, where the download links are links to the files on the CD. It includes AVG8 Pro, Spybot S&D, Office XP etc…
It all installed well, and I am runnig Automatic Updates now. 96 Updates to instal! As I am typing on the PC now, it has been on for half an hour and it is up to number 80.
Anyways, I gotta go because, in the words of Weebl, ” I gotta do a toilet”.
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