Re: Product Validation After Reformat/Reinstall

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:00:01 -0800, Allogene
<Allogene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently had a virus attack that messed up a bunch of my files and deleted
a few keys in the registry necessary for the full functioning of Windows. I
want to reformat and reinstall XP


That's a draconian solution to a virus problem that is very seldom
necessary. Anti-virus software usually works very well

But it's your choice, of course.


but will have to validate again.


No, what you will have to do is *activate* again.


Won't the
validation procedure at MS see that I already validated the same copy of XP
before and nullify my validation?


No. You can reinstall and reactivate as often as you need or want to.
Worst case, if you do it again with a 90-day period, you will have to
do it by a quick and easy voice phone call rather than over the
internet.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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