Re: product activation anomaly

From: Bob Harris (rharris270[SPAM)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:11:32 -0500

First, try re-activating. It might work.

If not, try contacting the OEM for assistance. (You are correct that
Microsoft will not help with OEM software.) Afterall, people do make
changes to Dell's, Gateways, etc and raely run into activation problems.

If you have a full backup of the system partition from several days to a few
weeks ago, try installing that.

Finally, are you implying that either SP-2 or XP in general has a bug
related to activation? While that is possible, you might look first for
simpler explanations, like (1) software changes that can trigger activation,
including a new BIOS or resizing a partition (e.g., parition magic can
change the disk ID when it operates on a disk). (2) a virus that damaged
the files related to activation, (3) a bad spot on the disk that clobbered
the activation files.

"William Owens" <billo123@msn.com> wrote in message
news:215601c4ae86$0b42e2c0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Windows XP pro installed 9 moths ago, SP2 added
> approximately 1 month ago.
> Anyway I turned on my computer to night and it said my
> hardware configuration had changed significantly and I
> have 3 days to activate windows. What? I haven't changed
> any hardware. What the hell? Anyway I am worried my
> computer will shut me out in 3 days. Anybody got any
> ideas? Also this copy of XP pro is OEM so microsoft won't
> support it. Well they should because the OEM has nothing
> to do with a software error that thinks I have changed my
> hardware. Microsoft should hav a better way to report
> bugs and also to the support the victims of such.
> Regards

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