"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4iq13iF50kc4U1@individual.net...

> visions of effty <impeach_the_shrub@verizon.net> wrote:

>> I'd use it as an excuse to get a nice, hacked version of XP and call it
>> even.
>
> Yeah, I do that just to avoid the activation stupidity too.


Well the guy said it was packaged with Windows ME. That right there solves
that. No reason to keep the recovery discs, therefore no reason to get the
same motherboard. Hell, if the guy has been putting up with ME for a few
years, Microsoft should have to give *him* some money!

~e.