Habitual

I believe that if you use the Classic Mode, then you'll have four Desktop Icons, My Computer, Network 'hood, My Documents and Internet Exploder delivered to the desktop. Otherwise, tweaking will be necessary.

Habitual aka dbCooper aka DaBaptist from EFnet daze. Ex PhrozenCrew member->courier->President. UberGeek. 12 years banging on these keys and yet, I still can't type worth a ****. Married. Live in California. 45 years old. Unemployed. Current Addictions: Utilz! Computer/IT related eBooks. Current Warez. Good Chronic. Starbucks Quad Shot Latte Grande, Four Raw Sugars, No Foam. "Humps" Dislikes: Boards that post links to Rapidshare that every other board is also posting. Lame. Ratios. The (AB)use of pluralism using the letter s. It's CDs, NOT CD's. It's 1000s, NOT 1000's, ad naseum. Cell phones in cars. Are you calling a paramedic? Because you're going to need one if you keep yakking on that phone. Favorite (Soft) Prank: Pulling the mouse cable from backs of PCs with "experienced" users still at the console. (Most people crumble. They've SEEN the accelerator keys for years on Menus and NEVER absorbed what they are for) Favorite (Hard) Pranks: One drop of superglue on ONE side of a toilet seat. I call the cops and report YOUR car stolen (good for 3 days in jail anywhere in the USA). Others too numerous to mention. Favorite Sayings: "Sucks to be you?" "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." "Blah, blah, blah" Did I mention I was a nice guy?

I have used my Dell WinXP pro SP1a CD on DOZENS of non-Dell machines, and it has always been activated and eligible for Updates, etc. My Dell CD has 2 separate product keys on it actually. One in Winnt.sif and the other in unattend.txt. I have not checked the validity of the unattend.txt key I slipstreamed the SP2 into the source and burned it. Installed to a VMWare machine and now it wants to be activated. Since I couldn't get VMWare to give me Internet access, I called it a trade-off. I suspect that the "improved" WPA mechanism was initiated during the period between the Image Creation and the release of SP2. Back in "the day" when I pirated the Win2000 Beta left and right. I modified the i386\setupp.ini and i386\setupreg.hiv file with 2 edits and that CD NEVER asked me for a key and always generated unique OEM ProductID and Magic Jelly Bean always coughed up a valid valid 5x5 code. Since MS has more resources than I do, I suspect that they have addressed ALL these issues. And I'm fairly certain they have "my number" (Since I ran a little crack group called PhrozenCrew for a little bit, the odds are pretty damned high). All I want is a RETAIL copy of WinXP Pro with SP2 integrated that doesn't ask me for a key every time I install it. Instant Gratification takes too long...