Why use a virtual machine? **RESOLVED**

[Billie Walsh]

On 11/30/2008 Gene Heskett wrote:
>  You all have forgotten that M$ now uses Windows Genuine Advantage,
>  aka WGA, to
>  certify that it is running on the box it was originally installed on.
>  Any
>  hardware change, a new hard drive, adding more memory, changing the
>  video
>  card, yadda yadda disables the logins and the box cannot be used
>  until it
>  gets re-registered, and arguing with them about it is a PITA, often
>  denied,
>  making you buy yet another copy.  I was given an hp desktop short
>  tower by a
>  neighbor because the psu had died.  I shoehorned a std psu into it,
>  and since
>  it only had 128 megs of memory added another stick beside that one
>  which
>  turned out not to be a match as it was a 256M stick. On the test
>  powerup, WGA
>  kicked in and would not allow a login, presumably because the memory
>  had been
>  tripled.  That sort of stuff I used to find on the ground behind the
>  male of
>  the bovine specie when I was a farm kid in Iowa 70 years ago.

We have repaired and/or rebuilt a lot of computers. We've never had a 
problem getting an authorization code from Microsoft. Biggest problem 
we've ever had was finding someone that spoke English to talk to on the 
phone.

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