Re: Activating Windows XP Home

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Dave wrote:

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Hi Rock and Steve

Many thanks for your replies.

So what your both saying is that what's happened to me is quite normal and that I should not get annoyed about it?

I can't speak for Steve, but I didn't say that. I explained how the process works. Whether you are annoyed by it or consider it normal is up to you.


With regard to 'activating too many times with the last 120 days', although I did try to activate within a few days of the second activation last week, to my way of thinking, activating twice since last October should not be considered 'too many'.

As I and many others have stated in this thread that message is misleading. To repeat one more time - that message comes up when activating less than 120 days from the last time. The online database is purged after 120 days. It does not really mean it's been activated too many times in an absolute sense.

So if I had to activate again now, I would automatically have to call Microsoft? 

Uhh..if less than 120 days yes, normally speaking.


Many thanks

Dave 

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Rock
MS MVP  Windows - Shell/User

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