[geeks] Windows XP 64bit Licensing?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/07/02 Mon PM 12:32:52 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Windows XP 64bit Licensing?

>Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> " From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> " 
>> " 
>> " 
>> " Since I disabled "Genuine Advantage", which is the most amazing oxymoron I've 
>> " ever heard from Microsoft, my system runs faster, smoother, and more reliably.
>> 
>> it -is- a genuine advantage -- for ms...
>> 
>> does windows update still work without it?
>
>Yes.
>
>Supposedly I'm missing out on some "premium" updates, but I don't care.
>
>It's just a game machine.

If you want to secure a machine, unplug the ethernet connection, anything less is a compromise (IMHO ;^).

The main things you lose by not updating a WinXP system are their "malware removal" tools, service packs, and the like... Easily replaced by the free software here:

http://free.grisoft.com/

Lionel