[an0n]

XP sold me the **** out!

It's automagically downloaded SP2, which means the next time I restart my computer, the ****ing thing is going to seize up and die because it'll realise I never activated the goddamn OS.

Piece of ****ing ****.

[phreak]

which is why i have automagic updates off.

[an0n]

I thought I did too. But apparently not.

God, ****ing dammit.

I wonder if I can delete the files before they're installed....

[Kosh]

I know someone who tried that and it just started BSODing on him constantly.

[Rictor]

Windows 98, how I do love thee.

[Liberator]

Amen.

[Kosh]

Just backup your important stuff before restarting. Just in case.

[an0n]

*cries*

It keeps popping the damn auto-updater thingy up, even after I've killed pretty much every task, giving me a 5-minute countdown to an autorestart.

PIECE OF ****ING ****!

[Rictor]

Can you restart in DOS mode under XP?

[an0n]

**** it.

I'll just have to hope my version isn't one of the blacklisted ones.

[Fury]

Which brings us the question as of why you ever installed XP that requires activation when you can install XP which does not require activation. And no, I am not talking about useless activation cracks which are not worth your time.

Go to a mirror, point at yourself and repeat: "God, ****ing dammit. You're mother****er.

Gotta love a good job where I can get MS software for free even if these are corporate versions. Not to mention that I can receive games as soon as certain importer have them available, for free. If only I could get that raise in my pay and I would be a lot happier.

Back to topic, please continue to delight us an0n. You can sometimes turn a bad morning into a good one with just one of your threads.

[Bobboau]

you have tried reset?

[Grug]

I take it his absence is an indicator it didn't work?

... Karma?

[Zarax]

Piracy did not pay for him.

[an0n]

I managed to delete/uninstall enough stuff that it hasn't implimented the changes, but it's still *****ing at me to update.

[MatthewPapa]

I upgraded to sp2 and I have a ....well.... "unofficial" version of XP and it diddnt shut me down. Mayb it wont to you also.

[Arraxis]

I use 98 like Rictor... What is this death-like sp2 you speak of?

[Liberator]

It's not so much SP2 that would kill him.  

It's the fact that his copy of Windows XP is...somewhat less than...legal...and he's afraid that if it auto updates to Service Pack 2 that somehow it will either fail to function or notify Microsoft who would likely add his name/IP address to a list of people they're going to file a law suit against for software piracy.

Okay it will kill him.

[kode]

while we are on the subject of sp2. why is that effing "security center" popping up whenever I boot up, and how do I kill it off permanently? disabling "check for firewall" and crap doesn't work, it just comes back the next time I reboot.

I miss DOS.

[Stealth]

yeah.  i go to Windows Update these days and the only thing under "critical updates" is "Windows XP Professional SP 2"...  haven't downloaded it yet.  i'm going to give it a few months, till they work (most of) the bugs out of it