RC> A. He was saying he has a less than legal copy of Win2k.

 RC> B. I myself run WinXP, a very legal copy.. This past Friday out of 
 RC> necessity, I had to replace the motherboard, CHIP and 
 RC> video.. Only original hardware was the 2 hard drives, 
 RC> the floppy, the CD burner and DVD reader drives, new 
 RC> motherboard has built in sound and LAN, old one I had 
 RC> the LAN and sound on PCI cards. Old memory 
 RC> configuration was 3 DIMM chips 256m each PC100, new one 
 RC> is 2 DIMM chips 512m each PC133. Oddly enough with this 
 RC> much of a hardware change, I did not have to reactivate
   RC> ==
 RC> Ross
You're lucky. It will probably catch you on the next really minor change.
I'm not passing judgement on his legal use of the software but I have no
use for the Microsoft Activation scheme - that's why I'm sticking with
Win2000 Pro. Intuit has jumped on that bandswagon with Turbotax this year.I
may switch to Tax Cut next year after being a loyal purchaser since 1989.

Bob Bainbridge 
bob_bainbridge{at}prodigy.net

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