[Thinkpad] Anyone got a source for Win 2K recovery disks for T23?

Anthony R. Gold thinkpadlist2 at ahjg.co.uk
Thu Feb 22 15:28:05 CST 2007


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:31:39 -0500, you wrote:

> At 07:22 PM 2/22/2007 +0000, Anthony R. Gold wrote:
>> On the contrary, IMO WinXP is vastly superior in terms of security and
>> also materially better in terms of features.
>
> ...and is more bloated (space and speed), and has more tracking and crippling functions.  Your Win2K installation isn't going to disable itself when you make hardware changes, or try to install it in a VM.  Your WinXP, on the other hand, will suddenly demand "reactivation" with Microsoft.

That is wrong and highly misleading.  The IBM OEM version of WinXP never
need either activation or reactivation.

Tony


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