More RAM = Windows Reactivation?
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what year is your XP?
BTW: great site for OS's
http://www.ixibo.com/2009/01/list-of-free-operating-systems-download-now/
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Off Topic More RAM = Windows Reactivation?what year is your XP?
BTW: great site for OS's
http://www.ixibo.com/2009/01/list-of-free-operating-systems-download-now/
Your list is pretty nice though, especially for starters. But it places the best starter systems too low on the list.
In my opinion Ubuntu, SuSE and the like are the best "gateway drugs" for free operating systems, because they are that easy to use, and allow you to make your first Unix experiences.
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http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/
and oh yeah: YAY FOR MY 200th post!!
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maybe it will work Dicker has written
Maybe because you are running Windows XP? Windows XP is not as bad as Vista in these issues IIRC. You have to consider that some years ago there were attempts to implement a very strict Trusted Computing implementation in any sold computer system. At this time Vista was just in development.
We can be glad that these TC efforts didn't get through as bad as planned or we couldn't run "unallowed" software or hardware at all.
@spartan029:
You can always install another operating system. No need to buy a new computer. Everything software related can always be fixed
For example, you can check eBay for cheap copies of Windows XP (and Vista).
If everything else fails, you can also download a copy of a free operating system (for example Ubuntu Linux). Although many games don't work, you can still get online and do normal work with it. This should help you out until you get your hands on a copy of Windows.
Have you tried calling your vendor and explaining him your problem? Maybe you can get a new copy of your OS.
Silent_Control has written
When i've upgraded the RAM it didn't require me an activation 
Maybe because you are running Windows XP? Windows XP is not as bad as Vista in these issues IIRC. You have to consider that some years ago there were attempts to implement a very strict
Trusted Computing implementation in any sold computer system. At this time Vista was just in development.We can be glad that these TC efforts didn't get through as bad as planned or we couldn't run "unallowed" software or hardware at all.
@spartan029:
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i hope computer isnt screwed... 
You can always install another operating system. No need to buy a new computer. Everything software related can always be fixed
For example, you can check eBay for cheap copies of Windows XP (and Vista).
If everything else fails, you can also download a copy of a free operating system (for example
Ubuntu Linux). Although many games don't work, you can still get online and do normal work with it. This should help you out until you get your hands on a copy of Windows. Quote
because i got my computer though a program, the people that were running the program installed my version and al the other versions of windows on mutiple computers to save money.
Have you tried calling your vendor and explaining him your problem? Maybe you can get a new copy of your OS.
you can get every game to run on Ubuntu using "Wine" which is a Linux software which recoqnizes Win Developed software (.exe files etc.)..
i would say: go for linux (have only tried Ubuntu myself), or Win7 (havent tried it but well its probably worse then Linux anyways :P)
the RAM chip
Vibhor has written
Windows 7 is better than vista and just a slightly less better than XP. XP is the best,but i dont know why your computer asked for reactivation maybe a problem with
the RAM chip
the RAM chip
That is his personal opinion anyways, everyone has a different viewpoint. Personally I think Windows 7 is free for a reason. I work at a comp store and when people bring in computers with Windows 7 everyone gets a laugh.
I was asking around today about just a ram card installation needing reactivation but people were saying "Hell no." Today I replaced a motherboard and that needed a reactivation, usually RAM is pretty basic. "shove and play" lmfao
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you can get every game to run on Ubuntu using "Wine" which is a Linux software which recoqnizes Win Developed software (.exe files etc.)..
i would say: go for linux (have only tried Ubuntu myself), or Win7 (havent tried it but well its probably worse then Linux anyways )
i would say: go for linux (have only tried Ubuntu myself), or Win7 (havent tried it but well its probably worse then Linux anyways )
Nope, incorrect, there's a long list of software incompatible with wine. Remember, Wine only simulates a windows environment by simulating the windows registry and enabling dll bootstrapping. For native win32 applications, this works great, however, in many cases, trying to bootstrap an app that's dependent on another wrapper will fail since wine can't automatically detect all of the dependencies that all win32 apps will need.
leegao has written
Nope, incorrect, there's a long list of software incompatible with wine.
For the curious, the compatibility list: http://appdb.winehq.org
leegao has written
Wine only simulates a windows environment by simulating the windows registry and enabling dll bootstrapping.
More importantly, they recreated all these libraries from scratch. That means: All userspace runtime libs, and maybe even some of those in the Windows kernel itself.
"Normal" apps should run fine by now. For example even larger ones like Photoshop or MSOffice (who would run that anyway with OpenOffice pre-installed...) run flawless.
Trouble exist with apps which use DirectX because Wine has always focused more on the WinAPI in general than on DirectX.
For DirectX stuff you can also buy a commercial Wine fork called Cedega (actually you get a subscription...) which supports many more games than Wine. Because it originates from the time where Wine was still under X11 license, we can't get our hands on free copies.
http://www.cedega.com/
Games which provide OpenGL rendering run fine actually (in most cases). Most prominent example are
World of Warcraft as well as other Blizzard games spartan029 has written
its not to bad. i like it. not really. yea it kinda sucks.
I'm sorry to hear that, but I hope you'll learn to like it, once you got used to it.
Are there any specific problems? Maybe we can help out
(http://ubuntuforums.org ist also a nice resource site)
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Re: More RAM = Windows Reactivation? lmfao the way to get banned on forums! Mods dont ban me!
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Lol, why are you writing this, when even YOU know that it's illegal and will result in a ban? /TheKilledDeath Hoshi Korosawa has written
Google for product keys
lmfao the way to get banned on forums! Mods dont ban me!
lmfao the way to get banned on forums! Mods dont ban me!
you should know better than that yo. and trust me! the mods/admin WILL ban you at the snap of a finger. please dont post illegal things on these forums. now back on target?
Hoshi Korosawa has written
Google for product keys
lmfao the way to get banned on forums! Mods dont ban me!
lmfao the way to get banned on forums! Mods dont ban me!
Cause it is true! Come on man, it is public knowledge!
Plus at least I did not post all the product keys I have!!
LOL Hoshi Korosawa has written
Gah! It is illegal to post anything on these boards! Don't worry the easiest solution to that is just google your questions LOL
By telling him that, you are incentivating him to do it, and you are compromising Unreal Software because the post is in DC's board.
Silent_Control has written
so it is illegal to share with spartan our product key, isn't it?
It's also stupid because it won't work.