[ale] Finding desktops, laptops and hardware in Atlanat

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:50 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> You would not believe the number of people that can't turn up that
> restore cd collection when the system punts. I'll grant that the main
> reason for Dell and the like doing it is so they don't have to provide
> a
> CD and thus incur the cost of doing so.

We just got a used laptop and the user did not have a restore CD.  I'm
not sure what to do if I ever need to reinstall Windoze.  I have the
license code as a sticker on the bottom but no media.  My guess is that
a standard copy of home will not recognize that key.