The half-life of Windows installations

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How to install Windows XP in 5 hours or less, a simple 147-step process recorded by Mark Pilgrim. (“Yes, I would like to activate Windows over an active internet connection, now that I have one. No, I would not like to register with Microsoft. Yes, I have read the privacy statement and agree to give up my computer, my civil rights, and my first-born child. I wasn’t using my civil rights anyway.”)