Why activation triggered?

[Tapio Kohonen]

Hi,

When I changed the video card (temporarily), Windows XP activation was
triggered because of hardware changes.
I do not understand why, more than 120 days have passed since the
installation
and activation, no hardware changes after that. Any idea why this would
happen?
Very unpleasant experience, computer unusable, no grace period, activation
server could not be contacted through internet for some reason, had to
phone.

Also, as a sidenote, even when I installed the old video card the
reactivation was needed.
It seems once this flag has gone up, you'll need to reactivate (or is there
some trick with file wpa.dbl?).

Thanks, Tapio

 

[kurttrail]

Hi,

When I changed the video card (temporarily), Windows XP activation was
triggered because of hardware changes.
I do not understand why, more than 120 days have passed since the
installation
and activation, no hardware changes after that. Any idea why this
would happen?

The 120 days just resets you hardware config changes so that any
reactivation due to hardware change will go through over the internet.

Why did one hardware change trigger reactivation, is the real question.
PA, like all of MS's code is imperfect, and MS doesn't care that you are
inconvenienced by the imperfection of its copy-protection scheme. MS's
ONLY REAL MOTIVE for including PA is GREED. MS stands to get more money
from people who are fooled into thinking that they need to buy another
copy of software.

Very unpleasant experience, computer unusable, no grace period,
activation server could not be contacted through internet for some
reason, had to phone.

Like I said, MS doesn't care about YOUR eXPerience, only in the
potential sales to those fooled by the PA error into buying an
additional copy of software that they really don't need.

Also, as a sidenote, even when I installed the old video card the
reactivation was needed.
It seems once this flag has gone up, you'll need to reactivate (or is
there some trick with file wpa.dbl?).

That's not the way it is supposed to work, but MS doesn't care about
your problems, only in their own greed.

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"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Product Activation is "buggy" at best. I got hit with a re-activation
request when I tried to update my video card drivers once. It seems that as
soon a mod is done to the wpa files, the product activation is triggered ON.
Until you re-activated, it remains on.

 

[Ed]

When I changed the video card (temporarily), Windows XP activation was
triggered because of hardware changes.

You think that's bad, I changed my Administrator Password on my XP-Pro
machine which set the whole activation scheme off thus making me have
to prove... AGAIN... that I didn't steal this software that I paid big
bucks for..... which actually means on the 4th time around that I
didn't steal it from myself I guess. Well, at least I never had to
answer to a federal subpoena to appear before a Senate Investigation
Committee questioning my business practices and integrity like the
ones that I have to keep proving over and over and over every time I
look at my PAID FOR computer the wrong way that this PAID FOR software
is not stolen. I didn't steal it from the retailer the first time I
had to activate it, I didn't steal it from myself the second time I
had to activate it, I didn't steal it from myself the third time I had
to activate it,etc. etc. etc...........

Ed

**** Crooks are always suspicious of everyone else ****