Lester said:
Since When does Microsoft Updates say that an administrator account
is NOT??
Some Po,Pollock running MS updates better fix the site NOW.
I have two accounts, One standard, the other is administrator. I used
the administrator account, and it says I need an admin account to be
using the site. Then the support site says my OEM product number ins not
valid.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???
It's really easy...
If you bought the machine from someone like DELL (An OEM) they didn't
pay Microsoft the full price for the OS so MS won't support it, the
company who "Built" the machine must support it... so if you paid an OEM
price for a DVD and installed it yourself then you are the manufacturer
and you didn't pay the full price and you you have to support it. If you
bought it from some bloke on a Chinese market stall it's probably a
contractual obligation that "He" support it, but I bet you won't find him
The problem with Administrators is that they like to think that, well,
that they should "Administer things", and as a result they present a
security risk to the machine because if they take a coffee break and
someone else sits down at their machine for a minute he can do damage -
soooo, because Administrators couldn't be discouraged from trying to
Administer things and logged in as Administrators all the time Microsoft
decided that you could be an Administrator only if you ask them each
time you want to be...
To avoid a sort of social "Affront" to people who "Wanted to be
Administrator" but weren't really qualified to be, MS kindly allowed the
name to be shared between Administrators and, well, Administrators in
rather the same way that all Australian men are called "Bruce" and all
Australian women are called "Sheila"
I can't tell the difference, one
just has to hope that Australians can
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(according to rumor). We apologize for the cancellation of the scheduled
comedy act, which was to be Bill Gates explaining the validity of
Windows Product Activation, but the lines to India were tied up and Mr
Gates plane couldn't be activated...
