Lets Revisit this - Re: Strange Reactivation!

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I DIDN'T change the Video Card just recently! All I did was change the VIDEO
ACCELERATION!.

With all conversation going back and forth, all I wanted to know was why?

Algorithmic Babble and "Activation Files" being corrupt is purely
speculation and quite frankly a "Load of Bunk"!!!

I had a very simple question (to re-iterate): Why; when I change the "Video
acceleration" on a vid card that has been in the system for about 6-9months
cause XP go get all ^*^#*^*&^ (that would be FOO-BARRED).

To be even more accurate, I've changed the vid acceleration of "5" (yup
that's five) different systems (5 times each) in the last few days and never
had this issue on those systems. I even (on 2 systems) changed the vid card,
changed the vid res yada yada yada. No problemo!

All this banter about this and that doesn't answer the underlying question.

But I do appreciate reading about all the "Techno-Hype" about which no-one
seems to be able to give a reasonably delineative answer, with the exception
of course from "Chuck". At least he suggested that the "Scheme Failed" from
the BETA DAYS. Right or wrong, at least he took a stand and suggested a
"Possible" cause.

He certainly didn't chew up the NG with a bunch of "Bungh"!

Anyway thanks to all for the great bedtime stories.

"Lost Soul" <blackhole@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eTsBPy7ZIHA.536@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently had to change my video hardware acceleration to basically NONE.
When I rebooted, I had to reactivate. It gave me three days, so I fixed up
my video problem then reactivated.

My question is, why did this happen. According to what I found on the web,
this should not have occurred as I've not added or changed anything else
at all on the XP (sp2) system.

Curious.




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