Chaldean

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So I have two computers, one is windows XP and the other is windows98se. I pulled the 98se outta my basement because I can use another computer.. I used my windows XP cd that came with my computer and upgraded the win98 computer to XP (deleted the partition, created a new one). Everything works fine, but when I do a windows update it gives me a "Windows activation required" page where I either download a so-called "validation advisor beta", or purchases a "genuine advantage kit" for $99.00 So here's my question, I've reformatted many computers before with my windows XP cd (though they all had XP existing on them), and never once have I been prompted to enter a CD key or validate my copy of windows for that matter. So is it doing this because I went from a 98se OS to a windows XP OS? If this computer had windows XP on it previously and I did the same thing would I run into this problem? And finally, If I validate my copy what will happen? Like I said I've never had this issue in the past, so I'm just trying to understand it. Thanks.

hmm, I never knew about this shortcut. very useful. does anybody know any others like this?

Hello all. I have a music folder with many songs in it, and I always sort it by date modified (it is the easiest way for me to get to the latest song) Lately, a bunch of songs are showing the date modified being updated to the current day when I have not touched them. for example, just today 17 songs show they were modified on 2-12-07, when this is not the case. My question is is there some sort of feature in windows XP that would cause these files to be updated like this? These are files that I do not access very often, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. The filenames are not in blue, so I know they have not been automatically compressed. Thank you in advance

Hey everyone thanks for the responses. Just thought I'd let you all know that I found a program perfect for my particular situation (also, if somebody ever googles this topic in the future, they can see my response) The program is called XnView, and it works perfectly. It is highly customizable, and it even caches the thumbnails in any designated folder you want. I highly recommend it. Download it here- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html

Just wondering if it is any way possible to enable movie thumbnails, just like in windows XP (if you have a mpg, avi, it will show you a picture of the clip) Are there any 3rd party applications that do this? Thanks in advance