Re: When is the Activation hardware profile first created/saved?

This didn't tell me anything about when the hardware profile is created.

The issue (which I guess I wasn't very clear about) is that I don't want to
have to activate twice for a single install. Because if I reformat yet again
before the 120 days I'll have to call the activation line anyway, and I'd
rather have as few activations on record as possible... for the obvious
reason.


j

"DL" wrote:

If you have to phone online activation, whats the problem?
However if your winxp is OEM you need to tell them hw failed & you replaced
it
It also depends on how long since last activation - 120 days has been
mentioned -

"jdub82" <jdub82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hopefully this is a simple question...

According to this website:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1151566,00.asp

"The WPA.DBL file is actually an RC4-encrypted database of the expiration
info of your installation, the confirmation of activation, the hardware
configuration at activation time, and the current hardware configuration."

I upgraded most of the parts in my computer and then did a reformat /
fresh
install of Windows XP. I have not activated it yet, and I have changed
some
of the hardware since the install (added some more memory and enabled some
things that didn't have drivers installed).

So my question is, will those hardware changes count against the limit, or
is the original hardware profile created *during* the activation?

I had a problem previously where I had activated XP but then it
deactivated
the next day for some reason and I had to call the support line to
reactivate. I want to make sure that isn't going to happen again :P



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