lan still going

ok lets see.... the lan party is still going on, kinda low turnout but it's still a lan. my pc was working great on friday, but today (saturday) it fucked up like 8 times in a row so i reformatted it right quick like :P it's kinda been a slow tedious process to get it back going good, but it sooo needed it. i've now installed SP2 and all windows updates, and i'm like 82% done downloading Counter Strike: Source. i've got most of my basic progs downloaded and installed, a few like Photoshop and MS Office i'll do another day. i'm anxious to get CS:S up and going to see if it still has issues. if so then it looks like a hardware issue :(

hmm.. oh yea - when trying to do windows updates, i found a badass article from PCWorld that allows me to get my updates. Bascially it said:

He accomplished this by disabling the Windows Genuine Advantage add-on within his browser's Internet Options. By clicking on Tools/Internet Options/Programs/Manage Add-ons, Keller disabled the WGA add-on. He then exited Internet Explorer and was able to do a Windows Update without completing the validation step.

woot? :)