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I think it is, but somehow I also think its more than that. To me, its more along the lines of knowing you have a good idea, knowing it could help, or really make a difference in someone's life (product/service depending), and I guess, knowing in the end that you can make a decent profit out of it. The need is there to make money, But before you do that, you need a product or a service. I know its a kind of "what came first, the chicken or the egg", and yes, business is there to make money. I just don't think it should be the only reason to be in business.

Look at some of the "shadier" businesses online. You have people selling ebooks of rehashed techniques that really don't do well anymore (In IM, its like a plague), people selling software/ebooks (again) with master resale rights, so that anyone can sell it and make money. The drawback to that is that this person is seen as some sort of "guru", when back at the ranch they haven't even read the book, or used the product they're selling. Some sell micro sites with everything you need all rolled into one (products/software included), and all a person really needs is a domain. I just feel its wrong. Just like any offline business that takes advantage of its customers, these guys take advantage of people that are new to the net and they make money out of it. No work, no actual hard/cold sell, just a "fake" promise, a few clicks of software here and there, and off they go. I just think it takes all the reward out of success when you have someone else do everything for you, and all you do is sit back and watch.

This is something I have noticed. its really easy for some to just start over, using the same techniques on a different site. I mean, they would flog one created site for all its worth, sell it and move onto the next one. I was reading a forum post about someone looking for ad pop ups for their site and all they really cared about was which ad type made the most money.

Its beginning to make me think that the internet is becoming more an area of disposable business practices. You can be one person for one week, make money, and then when that area taps out, you become a different person working the same techniques, from a different perspective. (If that makes sense)

You could use system restore, and take the PC back to any date that had been set when software was installed. Still looking around on the net, will update if I find anything.

I have been looking around at microsoft, and it seems that you might have to contact them, and you might need to buy a new serial key. You mentioned having the disc, is there no sign of the serial key on the box? You could also go back to the store you bought it from, if its not too long back. Sometimes stores install one OS on many PC's and that leaves a person without a serial key (or a disc in most cases) so when they need to reinstall, they can't without buying a new OS.

Did you install new hardware into the PC? Maybe a new CPU or motherboard? I have noticed that with something like RAM, you don't get error messages, but as soon as one of the core components like the cpu and motherboard are replaced, xp has issues. It installs itself around the peripherals you have at that point in time on your PC, and if it loses something major, you need to fiddle with the xp discs etc. so it can update and reinstall software that is specifically meant for that peripheral. But it seems that a reinstall is in the PC's future

If its one of its desktop ranges, you could just port the hard drive over to another computer, if you have one. You just need to set the hard drive as a slave and you should be able to get all your data off it.

I watched half of it, and in the end decided not to carry on. Strangely enough, it was like watching the Brothers Grim movie with Matt Damon.

I have a serious disposition about watching movies that has kids and animals in it and its serious movie where they end up being hurt etc. or sometimes even the possibility thereof (like train spotting for instance). A few other movies I could not watch was In the pursuit of happyness, and The passion of the Christ.

On the other side of the spectrum though, I tend to like movies based on mythology. Maybe its just my backward love of mythology, but I have loved a lot of movies that have come out along that line. 300, Troy, Clash of the Titans (cheesy, but good even if it strayed), and King Arthur (The Celts were a huge fav).

I have been noticing a shift of sorts. More and more, people seem to start a "business" purely to make money and have no regard for anything else other than the almighty bucks (in whichever currency).

When you decide to start a business, create a website and then start that long journey to market the site, what do you focus on the most. Your product?, Service? or Money?

lol Then you have overcome the last real obstacle I think. If you can go through all that and not reach for a smoke, you've darn near done it.

:P lol.

LOL at least you did it. I broke a record at a grade 7 camp for the amount of time it took a trainer to get mad at a student for not wanting to absail. I won, of course. They saw me coming a mile away. lol.

I will. In the beginning I never used to tell myself I need to stop. I tell myself almost daily now. I will get fed up with nagging at myself. That much I know. it worked like that when I stopped chewing my nails as well. hmmmm iPad2... sounds interesting.