From: "Frank Haber" 

Back in the Win98/Early2k days, even Sony (not known for great after-sale
support on its VAIOs) provided separate opsys and driver disks with clear
menu choices on what to install.  I've used merged (for SPs) install disks
and selective crap-reinstall on dozens of Sonys, HPs and Dells.

Activation sort of cramps you when you do this.  And then there are the sad
cases, "The serviceman removed my spyware by backing up my files,
wiping, and reinstalling a barred volume license.  What do I do?  There's
no restore partition on this machine."

What's described above is only a pale echo of what we used to have, before
we all moved to Kuala Lumpur.

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