Also, HP shipped this system without any recovery CD.
They did this on a number of systems for awhile
(2002/2003). Their answer was that they posted this on
their tech support site and that I could have received one
at no charge. Since I never went to their tech support
site until recently, I was "past the time alloted" and
would have to purchase one. They stated that HP still
owns the operating system. I've mulled over legal action
but since this would be a small claims case that I would
easily win but have a hard time enforcing, I gave up and
am buying a Dell system. I've also donated my HP printer
to a charity and bought an Epson. This would make a great
class action case! My goal in life now is to put HP out
odf business.
-----Original Message-----
BMP images don't require active desktop to be enabled,
only JPG images.

system I purchased from HP came with XP without any CDs
and now HP is trying to get me to buy XP again. Don't
ever think of dealing with those poor rats anymore.

HP should have provided you the means to restore XP as
I'm pretty sure
this a condition of their contract as an OEM with
Microsoft. This is
normally for al but the smallest of OEMs either as a
recovery CD or a
hidden image on your hard drive that can be used to
restore the operating
system. Why you need to purchase another copy of XP
unless you want to
install it on another PC.

Ohhh do I miss 95 sometimes

I shudder at the thought. g As for returning to Win 95
that rather
depends on what you want to do with your PC. For myself
it would be
hopeless with a maximum partition size of just 4GB using
64KB clusters and
being unable to run most applications written in the last
five or six
years. :-)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Chuck wrote:

I searched on google and tried a number of different
shareware programs including disappear, trtext,
wallmaster, and iconoid. None of these worked with
Active
Desktop enabled. I'm tryiong to use a picture for my
wallpaper/background and ME says that Active Desktop
needs
to be enabled. Ohhh do I miss 95 sometimes and the
system I purchased from HP came with XP without any CDs
and now HP is trying to get me to buy XP again. Don't
ever think of dealing with those poor rats anymore.

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