From: relic2@cjb.net   
      
   T.C. wrote:   
   > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:23:26 -0700, "chrisv"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jack wrote:   
   >>> Pastor Dave wrote:   
   >>    
   >>>   
   >>>> Anyway, all I can tell you is what the rest of the world is   
   >>>> telling you and that is that a normal XP Pro disc will indeed,   
   >>>> by default, ask for an Admin password during the install.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, only you are claiming that.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Hope this helps. :)   
   >>>   
   >>> What is wrong with you? Do you feel you have to win or something?   
   >>> Relic and I have both stated that we have _NEVER_ been asked to set   
   >>> a password during the OS Installation. *NEVER* -- Get it?   
   >>   
   >> Let me jump in... my experience is the same as relic's: No password   
   >> has ever been requested during installation. Dave must be using   
   >> something else other than a legit installation CD (or he just won't   
   >> admit that he's wrong).   
   >>   
   >   
   > Actually there seem to be different versions of the install-CDs - I   
   > just checked out (using Virtual Box) two different flavours of XP Pro   
   > CDs, one in English the other in German, both VLK CDs of what's   
   > occasionally called "Student Edition" - can't say how old they are   
   > though (what year/ SP level) as I didn't finish installation - both   
   > pop up the dialog "Computer Name and _Administrator Password_" next   
   > thing after the dialog asking for the license key, though entering a   
   > password there is optional - the English install set is of unknown   
   > origin, so I can't tell about any difference to the original CDs from   
   > MS (re: nLite or similar) apart from one additional text file   
   > containing a meanwhile obsolete VLK, the German one is the original   
   > version for Students from a university over here, unmodified so far I   
   > can tell...   
   >   
   > Having installed a good number of XPs myself, though from a limited   
   > number of sources _not_ being specific manufacturer customized OEM   
   > CDs, Hidden Partitions or nLite versions, I'd say from memory that   
   > most showed the dialog mentioned above - from a security point of view   
   > it wouldn't make much sense to NOT remind the installing person of the   
   > administrator account and the need to set a password, but then again   
   > experience tells that what makes sense isn't necessarily what's   
   > actually implemented...   
      
   As I said before, the only way we were both correct was that he was   
   installing something different than what I am. I just checked, and my   
   personal copies are: Retail XP Pro SP1, OEM XP Pro gold, OEM XP Home SP2,   
   and OEM XP Pro SP2. None of them ask for a password _during_ installation (I   
   always boot from the CD to do installations).   
      
   Pastor Dave become an ass when he refused to accept that I could be as   
   correct as he imagines himself to be.   
      
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