Re: ok, let's clear this up MS - is Product Activation really restricted?
- From: "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 02:03:12 -0400
Mtimerding wrote:
> On 30-May-2005, "Tim.T" <timatee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> For example, I didn't realise the number of times you could activate
>> it was
>> limited. I know this may be a precaution against piracy, but MS
>> should realise that people have to reinstall their OS for many
>> reasons, and just because they do it often
>
> I have to agree with Tim T, and disagree with all the replies to
> his post .... I too have run into the 'activation limit' as well, Not
> on one, but
> three different computers I own, 3 different vendors, with 3 different
> copies of Windows XP. (2 have HOME on them, and this machine has
> PRO) ... As I am retired, and disabled, and thus have nothing better
> to
> to but play around on these computers and try different things, and as
> I usually screw up whatever it is I am trying, I tend to just format,
> reload Windows, and all my applications (until I blow it again) and
> reformat, start all over ....(Currently on my 5th system, in the last
> 7 years) ... and three times now, I have run into the 'Exceeded
> number of allowed activations on this copy of Windows' message when
> trying to activate. This last time, there was no phone number given
> or opportunity to activate via a different method. It just popped up
> a window telling me to enter a Product key from another/different
> copy of windows xp, and no other options. Fortunately, for
>
> me I had another (legal) copy of Windows XP Pro laying here, not
> being used ... so I just formatted again, reinstalled using that
> copy, and activated it. But,
> in this case, it was the copy of XP that came with this Alienware
> computer that
> would not activate again. (But, it had activated at least 5 times
> since I got this
> computer 2 years ago) In fact, I had just reactivated it two weeks
> ago, before
> having to reformat again a week later.
>
> Before this, it occured on a Micron computer, with it's OEM windows
> cd.
>
> I also have a DELL system, with its copy of XP home downstairs for
> the
> kid to use.
>
> It seems to me, that the 'to many activations' message pops up, when
> trying to activate it somewhere around 3 times in a two week period.
>
> I am not arguing it is right or wrong, or bashing Microsoft for
> it's WPA, but I am just disagreeing with the MANY people who post on
> this group
> and others that there is NO limit to activating on the same system,
> with OEM or Retail.
>
> Because I know for a fact, as the original poster learned, THERE
> MOST DEFINATELY IS A LIMIT. (maybe it is imposed on what OEM you got
> your
> XP from, I don't know ...but the fact that it happened to me on 3
> different machines from 3 different vendors tells me it apparently
> isnt all that rare.)
There is no limit. The wording of the message is just fallacious. And
Dell systems are BIOS-Locked, so unless you change the mobo, or flashed
with a non-Dell BIOS you should never need to activate it.
I'm not one to give MS any slack over PA, but it should like you got
something else going on, virus, or virus-like, maybe.
What were you doing to get these computers to ask for activation?
--
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Kurt
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