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Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005, 2:00pm Post subject: Windows Nerds... |
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3-of-a-Kind
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
Posts: 92
WPP: 45
Location: Canada
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Hello, fellow nerds.
I am currently running Virtual PC 7 on my Mac so that I can run the Poker skins and a bunch of other non-Mac friendly sites. I have purchased a copy of Windows XP but the problem is that I have upgraded my version of Virtual PC a few times and each time I had to reinstall Windows. Now, each time that I reinstall it asks me to register the copy of Windows, so I type in the info and everything is fine. But I guess I finally did it one too may times because it now says that my info is no good anymore. Do I need to buy a brand new copy of Windows....? i hope not. Can i just call them up and tell them what's what? Do they even have phone numbers?
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Last edited by cassette on Tue, 05 Apr 2005, 2:00pm; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Wed, 30 Mar 2005, 7:43pm Post subject: |
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3-of-a-Kind
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
Posts: 92
WPP: 45
Location: Canada
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| Figured it out. Thanks anyway. |
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Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005, 11:17am Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 906
WPP: 92
Location: SoCal
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| cassette wrote: | | Figured it out. Thanks anyway. |
What's the answer? I'm still on '98SE and have put off XP because of the re-install limitation. As I approach the need for a new computer, XP becomes an inevitability. So was there a work-around? |
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Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005, 11:30am Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 1315
WPP: 94
Location: Washington, D.C.
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cassette, what kind of mac are you running? i run Party Poker in VPC on my iMac G4 (800 MHz) and it is slow as hell. multitabling is out of the question. i'm actually thinking of buying a winblows PC ((for the first time in my life)) just so i can play properly.
ChezJ |
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Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005, 12:25pm Post subject: |
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3-of-a-Kind
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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Location: Canada
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I am running a Powerbook G4 and can only play 2 tables before things get silly slow. I am also considering buying on of those devil PC's.  If you have the extra cash, VPC 7 is a large improvement over VPC 6. I could barely even run Party Poker on VPC6.
As far as the validation:
All I had to do was call the toll free number that was provided in the verification wizard thing. I was expecting to talk to a real person that I could explain my situation to an try my fancy social engineering skills...  . Turns out I didn't even have to. It was a computer lady on the other end that just asked me for my product ID and then continued to give me a new validation code. Which seems really silly because as far as I can tell this would have worked even with a pirated version....
Anyway, best of luck. |
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Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005, 2:37pm Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 1315
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Location: Washington, D.C.
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| interesting... i am on VPC6.1. maybe i don't need new hardware after all. thanks for the tip. |
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Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005, 11:51pm Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
Posts: 1064
WPP: 108
Location: San Francisco
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| {Moved from Poker Etcetera} |
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Posted: Fri, 01 Apr 2005, 12:51am Post subject: |
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3-of-a-Kind
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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WPP: 45
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| Is there any way to edit the thread subject line? I look kinda illiterate.... |
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Posted: Fri, 01 Apr 2005, 1:01am Post subject: |
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Flush
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 474
WPP: 95
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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| cassette wrote: | | Wnidows Nerds... |
ROFLCOPTER
Didn't notice that. You just made my night (boring night, I know)
I Are Illiterate And I Do Vote.
-Chris |
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Posted: Tue, 05 Apr 2005, 10:13am Post subject: |
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One Pair
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
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WPP: 101
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I've got a Dual 2.5GHz G5, and VPC 7. It is teh roxorz Mmmm... 23-Inch screen
Can multitable on party, although can slow down a bit if the processors are doing other things (been re-encoding a lot of Lost episodes recently) |
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Posted: Tue, 05 Apr 2005, 10:35am Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 906
WPP: 92
Location: SoCal
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| cassette wrote: | | Is there any way to edit the thread subject line? I look kinda illiterate.... |
Just open up your original post for edit and change the subject line. |
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Posted: Tue, 05 Apr 2005, 2:02pm Post subject: |
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3-of-a-Kind
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
Posts: 92
WPP: 45
Location: Canada
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| ah.... thanks! My illiteracy may now remain hidden behind the wonders of the internet! |
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