I have an XP Home machine here, that is well, crippled. The accountant installed as much crap as she could, when I caught her, I of course locked her down so hard she couldn’t even right click her mouse. But the damage was already done. Its twin system can perform almost 100 times faster at even basic tasks. The windows system just got bloated to all hell. If you hook it up to a DHCP network, it will DoS attack your router! So it is obviously infected with something that so far none of the virus scanners out there can find. With the system no longer in use (Accountant fired for incomptence) The best solution is a clean wipe. However, there is no install CD. The Licence number is on the side of the machine, but naturally no CD and no recovery partition, nothing. The shop it was bought at wants 100 bucks for a fresh XP install. Talk about a scam… I have an XP pro disc, but well, that doesn’t help me…
So does MS provide a download for XP Home?
Cause if not I think I will use that machine to test drive Mandriva Spring 2008 that I downloaded 2 months ago.
FYI this is no longer a business system, I took the systems back when the business went belly up.