Just last night I realized you have to "activate" Windows. WTF?! Since I got my new comp, Windows has been popping up an annoying reminder to activate it. All this time I had been assuming it is an optional thing, like registering your software, but then I clicked on the popup to see if there's any way to make it go away. Reading the menu, I realized YOU HAVE TO ACTIVATE! That means calling up Microsoft (it's probably easier to do over the internet, but expecting an internet connection is not presumptuous at all) and telling the machine your bajillion digit product number so that it can give you the corresponding bajillion digit activation number. And after wasting several minutes talking to a machine, it decided it can't find my number and put me on hold for a rep; AARGH!
