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[TheBoy]

Once had a copy of windows 98 a copy copy that is and it wasnt long before the PC eventually crashed along with several mates who had used the same licence key

The license key had sod all to do with the PC's crashing.

The crashing was either down to crap hardware, a crap installation, or a combo of both.

Depends on definition of crashing I guess - if you class crashing as a pop-up syaing you've been a naughty boy, and now can't use PC until you've been a good boy, then licence key will be cause.  If, like most people, you correctly class crashing as an abnormal termination of a process/system, then, yup, poorly built system (hardware or drivers)

[TheBoy]

£50 for Windows 7? Thats quite a good price its usually around £80 ish. They have made it harder these days to use dogey copies. As KillerWatt says, they store what keys are used and will cripple any machine using same muliple keys.

There are of course ways of stopping it sending the key, but then you don't get any updates.

You don't stop it from sending the key (in fact, you can't stop it). What you do is patch one particular system file (wga.dll to be precise), and you get the updates all day long.

Same aplies to Vista Ultimate & Win 7...patch it properly and it just works.

Think there is now more too it that that single dll. Seem to recall that loop hole was 'fixed' in Vista.

Obviously, the hackers will always find ways around any new methods given time.



Obviously, OOF is not the place to discuss that, I've had enough dust-ups with lawyers this year, and there are plenty of more appropriate places on the net to discuss such activity

[TheBoy]

running ultimate here, not sure what the spec is across the different versions but having Media Centre is a bonus. (its hooked up to the 46" Bravia)

Thinking of getting a couple of NAS boxes for all shared tunes, videos and pictures.

Assuming you use other methods to ensure integrity (ie, backups!), pop in a couple of 1.5TB disks into your Media Centre, RAID0 - cheaper than NAS, an ultimately better perfromance, particularly if you are limited to 100Mb LAN

[TheBoy]

running ultimate here, not sure what the spec is across the different versions but having Media Centre is a bonus. (its hooked up to the 46" Bravia)

Thinking of getting a couple of NAS boxes for all shared tunes, videos and pictures.

Assuming you use other methods to ensure integrity (ie, backups!), pop in a couple of 1.5TB disks into your Media Centre, RAID0 - cheaper than NAS, an ultimately better perfromance, particularly if you are limited to 100Mb LAN

Ultimate (the Betas/RCs were Ultimate) and Home Premium are the ones with MCE.

[TheBoy]

Rumour going round the office that MS will be offering a "special deal" to those running the RC windows 7 versions to upgrade to full release.

Anyone know owt about that

I've got the RC on a seperate hard-drive and am playing around with it, one thing I can't get it to do is to "remember" window size in IE .. always opens in a reduced window not full screen..

Is certainly pretty quick and stable ... also not had any problems finding working drivers .. even for the crappy old web cam   

The 'official' beta testers are getting a freebie Ultimate.  The 'public' beta testers get nought other than the cheaper Phase 1 pre-order (long passed now)