Windose XP

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Windoze XP to my laptop....... I survived , so did the laptop.

i had a heck of a time getting the wireless to work again.  I read site after site after site.  I was not getting the screens or folders all these sites said would be there.

I got PO'd ( something I am an expert at) ...... I pulled the wireless card out again.....  I pulled the blank plastic thingy out of the second PCMICA (sp?) slot. Stuck the wireless card in and all of a sudden I was getting the folders and screens I needed.

Obviously it works now since I am sittin on my butt in the shop using the laptop .

FWIW..... the Outlook express email on this latop was ALL intact.... nothing moved!

thanks again guys

[34ford]

Tony,

Don't know if you know or not, I didn't and nobody told me , that you have to register xp in 30 days or it will shut down the computer  till you do. I bought a new one in August and was cruising right along and one day a message came up and said I had x number of days to register the software . This was news to me so I did it and all was well. Friend said it's their way of keeping people form making copies.

I don't know if it let's you register it on more than one computer or not. Think you could if it was the same address and e-mail addy.

Be interesting to know if anybody knows for sure.  I'd like to put it on my other computer too.  

Love the new spellchecker

bob

[Crosley.In.AZ]

My info says you are correct , Windoze XP will shut down in 30 days if not registered.  The "number key" will only function for the registering once.

It seems I have doomed  this laptop to death.  It is 5 years old, time to retire it I guess

:cry:

[34ford]

My info says you are correct , Windoze XP will shut down in 30 days if not registered.  The "number key" will only function for the registering once.

It seems I have doomed  this laptop to death.  It is 5 years old, time to retire it I guess

:cry:

Can a person go to the add/remove programs in the control panel and uninstall the xp program or does it make to many changes.  Have a coupe of friends who did the updates for XP and screwed up there computers so they just removed it.