oblivion 5 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 What version are you on? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 While we're on the subject, a friend of mine has a cracked version of Office 2000 and he's thinking of upgrading to Office XP, but he's damned if he's going to pay for a new version rather than an upgrade. S'what he says anyway. But he wonders if he buys an upgrade, whether by some vile Gatesian trickery his computer will split on him and not let him upgrade, thus wasting a whole bunch of his money and time. Anybody got any words of comfort for my freewheeling friend? Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 I had a friend with the same situation except with MS OfficeX for Mac. He was silly and downloaded the upgrade for Office. After it installed he was required to enter a serial code.... and the crack code from the original version no longer worked. An hour later he had a new crack from the net and all was ok, or so I am told. Mac users should search long and hard on the internet for a bit of s/w called the 'Salt Mine'. Link to post Share on other sites
rajeem 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 XP - I have a friend who also tried to upgrade, but it would not let him and he wasted his cash on the upgrade (shop wouldn't take it back either). Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Well, thanks for the advice. I just got a call from my friend and he says he's fired up his piracy and communism software and is even now downloading something dodgy. Gosh, I hope he doesn't get in any trouble. And I wish he'd find all this stuff out for himself instead of asking me to post questions. I'd say Bill is making it difficult and expensive for people like my friend to go legit when they have a bit of cash to spare. That's a bit of cash, not like the dirty great silos of cash that Bill sometimes takes his clothes off and wallows in (that's what another friend told me). Link to post Share on other sites
rajeem 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 It is annoying isn't it? But sometimes I'd rather just take a deep breath and spend the money rather than a) spending ages and wasting lots of time getting frustrated finding other ways and running the risk of screwing things up very badly. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 why pay when its readily available and easy to install over the net! not really that hard. Db, whats saltmine do? interested. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Saltmine is a great program. It is just a database of serial numbers for pretty much every program and verion you can think of. Very very handy little program. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 If you need cracks keygens or seriel no's then www.astalavista.com is a good place to search from. You cant get the programs from there though just the cracks - get programms from kaaza etc.. note this is not altavista.com Link to post Share on other sites
peaker 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 I used to use my playstation for internet and email but a couple of weeks ago I got a second hand pc. Im pretty sure the windows program is dodgy but it works fine and upgraded itself off the internet. Should I be worried and stop it from contacting gatesville or what? Also I thought a crack was the part of your body that smells nasty after a day on the board but I keep hearing about cracks on kazaa. Whats it all about? Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 An image search on altavista (from which I expected to find the sort of crack you described)found the following image. I had the family filter off and all but this pic and ones like it filled the first 10 pages of the results. Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Oblivion, nice poll, but what about Windows ME? The one that came after Win98... Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Yes, one of my PCs is on ME. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 What is the difference between XP Home and XP Professional? Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 ME here as well. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 The difference between home and professional is that on the home version there is a "turn off computer" button in the start menue and the pro version has "shut down" or something to that effect. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 microsoft home doesnt come with microsoft office, well mine didnt anyway. professional comes with office...so stuff like excel, powerpoint etc. Link to post Share on other sites
mikazooki 0 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 no. i have xp pro. it did not come with office. that depends on whatever is packaged by the maker/retailer. from what i gather, xp has a slightly faster start up time and some different security levels. and its got some biznissy networking options, and different recovery functions or sumpin like that. plus its blue. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 The automatic security updates in XP are convenient. If'n you first accept the gaping security holes that require patching... The wizard for setting up my home network was no help at all, and the info on the web about it suggested the method I had in mind was too dangerous for MS to explain how to do. I wouldn't be wanting to do it if'n it really was dangerous. Link to post Share on other sites
Wizz 11 Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Does anyone really know what the hell they're really downloading when Windows conveniently asks you if you want to download security patch R554dgtghg-VDFSS-54433-cccFrwrr-4433254?? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 If you go to the US MS website and follow the security links, you can find out what you're downloading. You can also run scans of your computer and get recommendations about other things you might like to install. Mostly what's downloaded automatically is patches for holes that shouldn't be there in the first place... Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Ocean - you're asking your question on the wrong forum. XP is starting to show its age. The security holes have long been exploited and now many web pages are overwriting registry keys setting your home, search, not found pages to pop ups. As of right now the best way to stop this short of a reformat is with a program called ad-aware. I have fixed many a person's PC in the last couple months by mainly just running that little gem. Link to post Share on other sites
ug 0 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Adaware is good , I use that too. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I just recently installed the Google toolbar which stops most popups. ender, I realized I could tap into the motherlode of esoteric knowledge on certain, shall we say, less busy forums, but this thread was already started and all. My friend has now got the new XP and is all set to install it. I say he should be fined to within inches of his life for his piratical ways. I will ostracize him. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 You just do that. The evil Gates pirate software will explode his hard disk Link to post Share on other sites
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