Nice little trick you can use to get past the registration requirements of many websites.
You can change your Browser Identification string in the windows registry so web sites think you are a google webbot.
You will need to change it back to use the Windows Update site (automatic updates still work).
save this as browser.reg:
CODE
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Googlebot/2.1"
"Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"
To undo:
CODE
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Opera has this functionality built in. Firefox users can download this extension to change the user agent: http://useragentswitcher.mozdev.org/
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