I stopped writing software that cared about that a while ago, and being
an Microsoft automatic update refusenik I didn't know that, but it's
nice to know.
Adam Maas wrote:
Adding a monitor does not trigger the Authorization phone-home. CPU,
motherboard or boot drive changes are the only triggers.
-Adam
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:06 PM, P. J. Alling
<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that was just coincidence. What I think triggered it was adding the
new monitor, then not allowing XP to phone home to verify the change. Of
course I don't deal with that kind of behavior myself, I run Win2K.
Joseph Tainter wrote:
"It sounds like you've run afoul of Microsoft's Digital Rights Management
system. Though I thought that it only really was this bad in Vista."
If that was the case, would Windows give me some message? Why would
searching for a hotel trigger this?
Thanks,
Joe
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