That has been my BIG problem. I simply could not get to the registration window - to enter a code I got by email. Very sad. It froze the machine every single time, for days and days. I had to give up.

And yes - give us something that is NOT LIKE Windows 8, not even like 8.1 and I will think about it for my XP machine. 8 (adn 8.1) is beyond awful. But the 2000 one won’t take even XP - it is just too old and creaky ! The next machine I buy will be a mac. I have had it with Windows.