who said im a pirater? i never said i used lisences with those XP cds, sure i have the XP cds, do i use them? no because i have no XP Pro lisences. I've heard ppl at school that use those serials because the school is stupid enough to leave them tagged on the case. I do not pirate software, i know that its illegal, I'm just not stupid enough to want to get my life taken away for using something that i could just go out and buy. And it basically does come down to personal preference. If someone doesnt need security then they dont need security, it also comes down to performance, someones not gonna put xp on a machine when it takes 10 minutes to load to a close to stable environment. Thats why i went back to 2000.