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

Jon Kelly jcrkelly at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 15:37:15 CST 2007


On 2/22/07, Anthony R. Gold <thinkpadlist2 at ahjg.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Tony -- isn't that statement only hold true if you are installing it onto
IBM hardware?  (e.g. not in a VM running on any hardware - IBM or other, or
directly onto non-IBM hardware.)
I believe that is the case for other OEM versions.

-jk


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