On Thursday 19 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 19/04/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dotan, my laptop dual-boots with XP. I have that set up to notify me of > > updates, but not install. I do recall seeing, however, that you can > > elect to download updates automatically and install later, though I've > > never tried that, since I like to read the description of the updates > > before letting them loose :-) > > > > Anne > > That is almost impossible in Israel. Software pirates are rampage > here, such that WGA assumes everything is pirate. I do believe that > it's area-specific, and with just reason. In any case, on my current > Dell I run a cracked XP in a VMWare VM because my legal XP disk won't > validate and the cracked one works fine! I've overcome the moral > reasons as I HAVE a legal licence. > > Automatic updates are the only way to update a cracked XP. As for my > (past) professor, I will suggest to him non-automatic updates. > The 'download now, install later' is part of the automatic updates. I'm sure it would solve the problem for him. Anne
