Windows XP Genuine Advantage nags.

One doesn't get to be obscenely rich without being incredibly small minded.
Bill Gates' Microsoft Windows XP has always been buggy and overpriced.

You can't get them for selling you crap, because they don't sell you Windows, they own it, they just sell you the rights to use it.
So they feel justified in adding their own official spyware and addware through an automatic update: the genuine adavantage nag screen. Even though they snoop your computer without your knowledge.
Then they ask you to pay the full and excessive purchase price for the licence of a system that is on the verge of being superceded: I'm sure this licence fee won't carry over to their new bug-filled system which will require a full priced licence and not just a nominal update fee.

Typical American capitalist greed and paranoia: one day I'll explain just how the record labels that whinge about music piracy rip off your favourite musicians at little risk to themselves to put their product that they so viciously defend on the market.


Here is a webpage with different methods to get rid of the genuine advantage nags.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/26/disable-and-remove-windows-genuine-advantage-notifications-nag-screen/

I am proud to say that I use Mandriva Linux: if you are a member of Melbourne PC User Group you can get it legit and above board on DVD for $5.00