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Posted: Tue 10 Aug, 2004 17.20
by Neil Jones
cwathen wrote:Well it won't work on those installations of Windows using a handful of known pirated keys, let's put it that way.
Is this the same handful of known pirated keys which stops SP1 from installing, or have they added more to the list?
I believe its those and some others.
Posted: Wed 11 Aug, 2004 19.10
by intheknow
Neil Jones wrote:cwathen wrote:Well it won't work on those installations of Windows using a handful of known pirated keys, let's put it that way.
Is this the same handful of known pirated keys which stops SP1 from installing, or have they added more to the list?
I believe its those and some others.
Although there is of course a fairly easy way to get round this. Ahem.
Posted: Wed 11 Aug, 2004 22.39
by cat
As I have a highly illegal copy of Microsoft Office 2003, will installing SP2 break this?
I am sick of buying Office. Just this one time I thought I would be illegal.
Posted: Wed 11 Aug, 2004 22.43
by Pete
It won't touch office.
On a related note, Service Pack 1 for Office is out too from
http://office.microsoft.com
It shouldn't break anything either.
Posted: Thu 12 Aug, 2004 10.30
by cat
Woohoo. Let my criminality continue.
On a sort of related but not note...
http://www.wepsite.net/cheech/keys2/XPThemeROYAL.rar
This is rather nice. I didn't know anything about it, but it makes Windows look a lot ''fresher''.
The first official 'theme' for Windows XP since its release, in case you were wondering. You will need to download something to decompress it - I think I used Win Rar from download.com - and just plonk it in the Windows > Resources > Themes folder.
I actually haven't got SP2 yet, though. It doesn't appear in my Windows Update list thing.
Posted: Thu 12 Aug, 2004 11.18
by Pete
Well you could get the full installer from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
IIRC you need to be using the new version of windows update to get SP2 from there.
Royale btw is the new theme for Media Center 2005. I personally think it's foul.
Posted: Fri 13 Aug, 2004 03.25
by Chris
c@t wrote:Woohoo. Let my criminality continue.
On a sort of related but not note...
http://www.wepsite.net/cheech/keys2/XPThemeROYAL.rar
This is rather nice. I didn't know anything about it, but it makes Windows look a lot ''fresher''.
The first official 'theme' for Windows XP since its release, in case you were wondering. You will need to download something to decompress it - I think I used Win Rar from download.com - and just plonk it in the Windows > Resources > Themes folder.
I actually haven't got SP2 yet, though. It doesn't appear in my Windows Update list thing.
Indeed. None too shabby, is it?
Shaded buttons look a bit naff though.
Posted: Fri 13 Aug, 2004 16.59
by DJGM
Any chance you could make the pixel size of that picture about 50% smaller? No-one likes vertical scrolling!
Posted: Fri 13 Aug, 2004 17.18
by Pete
DJGM wrote:Any chance you could make the pixel size of that picture about 50% smaller? No-one likes vertical scrolling!
I love it, it's horizontal scrolling I hate.
Posted: Fri 13 Aug, 2004 20.29
by Anonymous
Posted: Fri 13 Aug, 2004 20.55
by Neil Jones
Barrett wrote:I have just seen windows xp sp2 on download.com
What do you want, a medal?
Download.com is just a huge glorified catalogue of software files. It doesn't store any files itself, it just links to loads of others. Download SP2 from there, it'll still get it from Microsoft.