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I just love being punished for being honest.
I purchased one of the original runs of Windows XP (OEM) along with the
hardware for a new computer. Over the years there have been a few upgrades,
faulty hardware's been replaced, and there have been several re-installs of
XP along the way. But all in all it's been the same computer, in the same
case that I affixed the OEM CD key to oh those many years ago. Before you
start suggesting it's not the same computer, I'll say if this were a Car
there would be no question about it being the same.
Two revent events, however have really turned me against activation.
The first was about 3 months ago... My motherboard is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
and has two different network jacks on the board. A 10/100 based on a
Nnvida's chip, and a 10/100/1000 based on a Marvell Yukon chip. I was having
some network problems, so I decided to try the other network jack. In
NETWORK CONNECTIONS, I disabled the NVIDIA NIC, and enabled the Marvel NIC.
Everything was working great until I rebooted and immediately Windows
required me to activate. Not only that, it wouldn't do it online, I had to
do it by phone. THIS WASN'T EVEN A HARDWARE CHANGE!
The other was yesterday. I've been putting off a complete re-install since
before the incident above. But haivng a 3 day weekend, and new years
resolutions and all I figured now it's time.
Normally when I reinstall, I take the opportunity to swap out a larger hard
drive, then format the old once everything's up and running. (and I'm at the
point where I'm 99.98% sure I've got everything important...but I always
forget *something*)
This time, all the hardware is EXACTLY the same as what I was running prior
to the reinstall!
Yet, when I got to the activation window, NOT ONLY did I have to use the
telephone... I had to wait until somebody in India got on the line to ask me
WHY I was reinstalling, and where I got my OS.
So my question is WHY is there no De-activation tool so that the next time
I'm planning on a re-install, this honest user can avoid the third degree?
I purchased one of the original runs of Windows XP (OEM) along with the
hardware for a new computer. Over the years there have been a few upgrades,
faulty hardware's been replaced, and there have been several re-installs of
XP along the way. But all in all it's been the same computer, in the same
case that I affixed the OEM CD key to oh those many years ago. Before you
start suggesting it's not the same computer, I'll say if this were a Car
there would be no question about it being the same.
Two revent events, however have really turned me against activation.
The first was about 3 months ago... My motherboard is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
and has two different network jacks on the board. A 10/100 based on a
Nnvida's chip, and a 10/100/1000 based on a Marvell Yukon chip. I was having
some network problems, so I decided to try the other network jack. In
NETWORK CONNECTIONS, I disabled the NVIDIA NIC, and enabled the Marvel NIC.
Everything was working great until I rebooted and immediately Windows
required me to activate. Not only that, it wouldn't do it online, I had to
do it by phone. THIS WASN'T EVEN A HARDWARE CHANGE!
The other was yesterday. I've been putting off a complete re-install since
before the incident above. But haivng a 3 day weekend, and new years
resolutions and all I figured now it's time.
Normally when I reinstall, I take the opportunity to swap out a larger hard
drive, then format the old once everything's up and running. (and I'm at the
point where I'm 99.98% sure I've got everything important...but I always
forget *something*)
This time, all the hardware is EXACTLY the same as what I was running prior
to the reinstall!
Yet, when I got to the activation window, NOT ONLY did I have to use the
telephone... I had to wait until somebody in India got on the line to ask me
WHY I was reinstalling, and where I got my OS.
So my question is WHY is there no De-activation tool so that the next time
I'm planning on a re-install, this honest user can avoid the third degree?