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The suspicious death of XP support | 34 comments (34 topical) | Post A Comment
Gak![ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#25)
by Anonymous User on Fri Jul 18, 2008 at 09:56:35 PM PDT

"The next day, XP re-installed the patch without any apparent acknowledgment from the user, then rebooted without recourse (abruptly ending a better than usual WoW campaign)."

Christ, people, turn off "download updates automatically" and "install updates automatically"! Especially the latter. That laptop is probably infected with WGA Notifications too, and Christ alone knows what other crawling horrors devised by the devious forces of darkness at Redmond.

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