[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you hate phoning home, do not try to format the hard drive of a name brand computer and do a clean install of Windows XP using an OEM CD. You will be denied activation and have to personally call Microsoft. You
At least with my fourty some-odd Dells, you don't even need to activate OR enter a product key. And this is with their vanilla XP restore disk (ie: it's not a "restore" CD that reloads all their bundled crap.)
