it's probably checking to verify that your copy of XP is still activated. Activation is an ongoing process for most copies of XP.
If you have a product key that allows for a single install, then your computer will check periodically to verify that only 1 copy is currently running that key. Say you install XP on a machine, then install the same copy on another machine. Then you try to activate the second copy, it'll fail because your key has already been used. Then you call and explain that your other PC caught on fire and you're not using it anymore, so they allow the second copy to work.
Now, if you were lying about the first PC and tried to continue using it, it would call that activation IP a couple weeks later, find out that it was no longer the authorized copy and would stop working.
we took full advantage of it, using the TV's in each room to broadcast videos of our school's daily new each morning, our senior year star treating it as if it were SNL's weekend update, acting like Dennis Miller every morning as he told of yesterday's cross-country runners' standings... we dug it, we got some 'news', we were told that we didn't have to watch the commercials (mostly M&M's and that sort of thing, it was young, they were feeling us out), and we got to brag about the TV's in our school.
ever single word in the article may have been true. Did anyone ever say otherwise? If an absolutely factual article is "false", how is an absolutely false (except for the sex of the subject) photo not a problem?
I installed 7 a few weeks ago (my ADSL provider switched my lines to my new provider, who then informed me that they would mail my modem in a couple days, leaving me without access for a week), it asked if I wanted it to take over my network connections, I said yes, it did, very painless, actually. didn't even mess up my ICS (internet connection sharing).
When I got my DSL modem, I set it up and it became my default connection. AOL recognized it and allowed me to use that connection as my default for AOL as well as for everything else. No problems.
When I installed AOL 8 last week, the only strange thing it wanted to do was become my default CD player.
I don't like the MDI interface at all, or the way it steals focus at bad times, or the dumbed down version of AIM that comes with it, but it's nowhere near as bad as I remember it being (from 99).
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I believe that is the Windows Update Status site.
it's probably checking to verify that your copy of XP is still activated. Activation is an ongoing process for most copies of XP. If you have a product key that allows for a single install, then your computer will check periodically to verify that only 1 copy is currently running that key. Say you install XP on a machine, then install the same copy on another machine. Then you try to activate the second copy, it'll fail because your key has already been used. Then you call and explain that your other PC caught on fire and you're not using it anymore, so they allow the second copy to work. Now, if you were lying about the first PC and tried to continue using it, it would call that activation IP a couple weeks later, find out that it was no longer the authorized copy and would stop working.
we took full advantage of it, using the TV's in each room to broadcast videos of our school's daily new each morning, our senior year star treating it as if it were SNL's weekend update, acting like Dennis Miller every morning as he told of yesterday's cross-country runners' standings... we dug it, we got some 'news', we were told that we didn't have to watch the commercials (mostly M&M's and that sort of thing, it was young, they were feeling us out), and we got to brag about the TV's in our school.
Not a bad deal, I guess.
must be flamebait, then? strange. all the things that look like flamebait to me in this thread are given +4 "insightful".
ever single word in the article may have been true. Did anyone ever say otherwise? If an absolutely factual article is "false", how is an absolutely false (except for the sex of the subject) photo not a problem?
10-20 cent per slice of cheese, I can't imagine them paying more than a penny per slice.
I installed 7 a few weeks ago (my ADSL provider switched my lines to my new provider, who then informed me that they would mail my modem in a couple days, leaving me without access for a week), it asked if I wanted it to take over my network connections, I said yes, it did, very painless, actually. didn't even mess up my ICS (internet connection sharing).
When I got my DSL modem, I set it up and it became my default connection. AOL recognized it and allowed me to use that connection as my default for AOL as well as for everything else. No problems.
When I installed AOL 8 last week, the only strange thing it wanted to do was become my default CD player.
I don't like the MDI interface at all, or the way it steals focus at bad times, or the dumbed down version of AIM that comes with it, but it's nowhere near as bad as I remember it being (from 99).