MICROSOFT SUX LOL
[ rakaur on Tue May 02 at 10:24 PM // category: microsoft, technology ]
I hate Windows. My only purpose for having Windows at all is games. That’s it.
So I’ve read about this “Windows Genuine Advantage” shit that pops up every three nanoseconds to tell you your copy of XP is illegal or something. Today I witnessed it install on my perfectly legal copy of XP Pro (I didn’t buy it personally, but the CD I have is genuine) and promptly proceed to tell me my copy was illegal. So I open Firefox to go find some way around it, and Firefox apparently updated itself at some point and now won’t open. Wonderful. It just sits there “Firefox could not be updated. Close Firefox and try again.” and by clicking “ok” I apparently mean “relaunch Firefox so it will do this over and over.” So I reboot, thinking that’ll let it update, but no. So, I try to uninstall Firefox, but no. The file is in use. I boot to safe mode and remove Firefox.exe. I boot to Windows and wander over to Windows Update in IE for it to tell me my copy of XP is illegal. So I go find some patch for WGA on torrentspy and IE suddenly lets me use Windows Update, which wants me to install WGA! So I do that, and now I get these annoying ass popups every ten seconds. So what do I do? I find a key in the registry that starts “WgaTray.exe” and disable it and restart. Suddenly my copy is genuine. Microsoft really is up on this whole “pirating” thing. So I then use IE to go get Firefox once again.
So, let’s see, I had to:
- Restart to try to fix Firefox
- Restart to delete Firefox
- Restart to install WGA
- Restart to patch WGA
- Restart to install Firefox
It takes my machine like 20 seconds to boot Windows. The “Windows XP” logo screen flashes and disappears. However, after using Unix and OS X which almost never requires restarts, it just pisses me off.
All I want to do is play games. I didn’t pay for XP, and I didn’t pay for the games, but even if I did that wouldn’t change the fact that it’s still a flaming piece of shit.
Fuck.
-- rakaur // 2006.05.02 @ 10:24 PM
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