Must vent about my computer!!!!

[popcornbird]

I'm glad I have my brother here.

You all know what my computer was doing to me these past two months! It was driving me CRAZY! Then I got a new harddrive and all was well, until I installed Picture It. ACG&S, you were right that Picture It is a problem. The second I installed it, the second my harddrive (brand new) started chocking and jerking and acting wierd again. My brother said he's going to throw my computer away he was so mad at it, but then I told him "WAIT, someone at PT said Picture It is a problem!!!" So I reinstalled Windows, threw my Picture It CD in the trash so I'm never tempted to install it again, and its working great now, thank God. Its working wonderful. Good luck with your beast. My beast learned a big lesson, so I think he'll be calm for a while.

PS. You might be installing the harddrive improperly, or did something in the installation process wrong that it didn't work. Also, with a different harddrive, the recovery CD for Windows won't work. I have a recovery CD that didn't work after getting the new harddrive, so we borrowed a friend's Windows XP CD (since our's was annoying us) and installed it off of that. Then we discovered that Mr. Bill Gates has every computer have a different activiation key and if you use an activiation key already in use by another computer (our friend's) then we will lose Windows after 30 days.................hmmm............. Anything to make people buy more Windows copies to make more money. We already had Windows XP and found no reason to buy it AGAIN just because Bill Gates wanted us too, so my brother started messing around with Windows, and discovered some way to make my computer think it doesn't need an activiation key. I don't know how he tricked my computer, but it worked well. I have not been asked for an activiation key ever since.