RANT: Why I (insert curse) hate windows...

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I am trying to download get iPlayer to work in bootcamp because I am an idiot and told EyeTV to record Top Gear on Dave not BBC2 at 14:00 not 20:00?.

I went to iPlayer on my Bootcamp partition... Heres where the rant starts...

I go to download iPlayer no problems there I download the entire Click Online episode (top gear is not online yet) only to be asked to do a security update, I press ok and BOOM! KService.exe has crashed. Try it a few times and even reboot, no avail.

Ok so I though perhaps I need to make sure Windows Media Player is working, load it up and *DONG* "YOU MUST VALIDATE WINDOWS!!!".

So okay i need to validate no problem... Press validate... A few moments later *DONG* "WINDOWS COULD NOT VALIDATE!" Wah?. I hit ok and it loads the help page... *DONG* "WE COULD NOT FIND THE PAGE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR" Wah?

Conclusion: I hate windows why is it to install a simple update I have to do all this only to find out that the damn validate error page is having and error, why do people continually insist on buying these 3rd rate pieces of crap that Microsoft continually seems to churn out. I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT. AHHHH!!!!

*Big breath*

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Sorry guys, mark it as spam, or what ever but I so had to get that out!
(Share your rants perhaps?)
 
So you're annoyed because a badly written piece of third party software doesn't work in it?

Edit: Do you boot that Boot Camp partition in Parallels / VMware too? Updated Boot Camp lately?
 
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Shame, it was a good episode too. Veyrons, Eurofighter Typhoons... :p

Seriously though, I've heard of a recent update breaking activation. I'll go look to see if I can find it again.
 
The only things I can think of that would deactivate it would be booting it in a virtual enviroment running different hardware (eg Parallels / VMware) without doing it in the correct order (this would appear as totally different hardware, causing activation to kick in), or the final release of Boot Camp changing the emulated BIOS in a large way which caused the machine to be seen as different hardware.
 
The Veyron would have beat the jet.. but the jet cheated and flew higher up on the way back ;)

We all know that the higher you fly = faster your over-ground speed.

I'm betting it would have been close if the Jet flew a few feet off the runway.
 
I feel your pain. I was working on some legacy drawings on the sole Windows machine left in my office. Friday afternoon all was fine, the drawing opened perfectly, Monday morning I booted up and then opened the drawing again. Autocad (what a sack of **** that program is :rolleyes: ) crashed and then took the whole system down.

iPlayer is a joke anyway, typical clueless BBC trying and clearly failing as per usual.
 
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