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It's a no-brainer, thanks addRAM, great name by the way, it's so advisable it should be compulsory (adding RAM to a machine that is) which reminds, me, if memory is cheap at the moment (yeah we have Black Friday over here too now) then I should upgrade the lappy with another 4GB. As well as replacing the my router. It all adds up though, gotta save where you can!
I am still waiting on a couple of peeps recommended by alphanumeric and torchwood, superfly and Noel, who I'm told may be able to say whether the recovery discs can be used for OEM-SLP activation with a BIOS tampered with by counterfeiters, i.e. by updating with the latest official BIOS first. Unless anyone else reading this has an idea.
Yeah, I admit, I was suckered in, bought it in a hurry on the way to the airport, probably hungover and didn't check for the COA. Great holiday though, and you're right Layback, it's a beautiful place, no plans to visit again soon though. If I can establish that recovery disks will work with an updated BIOS, it will indeed be cheaper than buying windows, and that can't be bad!