Jim Cornette wrote: > I only had cell phones and no land line when my wife bought her a > laptop. We could not register at home even though we had high speed. We > had to wait and register when we brought the laptop over to a person who > had a land line to register. Some people say that they never had to > register, but authentication of the license had to be performed in some > manner. You (or maybe someone else) keeps saying this, but does one _have to_ "authenticate" Windows? I've installed several versions of Windows on virgin machines, and I don't recall having to be on the internet before Windows worked. I had to put in the secret 20-cipher code, and then Windows ran. As it happened, last time I installed I could not get onto the internet until I downloaded a driver for my WiFi device (on a different machine). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
