Activation, again??

[Larry]

I recently received a notice that I have 3 days to
Activate Windows XP. XP was activated 1.5 years ago and
no hardware changes. Message was received after I ran a
change to msconfig to try and boost pc performance. Why
do I have to reactivate???

 

[Don Burnette]

I recently received a notice that I have 3 days to
Activate Windows XP. XP was activated 1.5 years ago and
no hardware changes. Message was received after I ran a
change to msconfig to try and boost pc performance. Why
do I have to reactivate???

What change did you do to msconfig?
Would be strange to have to activate again if no hardware changes have
occured.
Have you tried simply reactivating it over the internet anyway?

 

[kurttrail]

"By the act of scrolling and/or replying this post on your computer, you
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will result in you burning in hell for ever and ever! Amen!"

I recently received a notice that I have 3 days to
Activate Windows XP. XP was activated 1.5 years ago and
no hardware changes. Message was received after I ran a
change to msconfig to try and boost pc performance. Why
do I have to reactivate???

Because of the greed of MS! MS can't make any software that isn't buggy
& insecure, why would anyone think that their copy-protection software
is any different.

Any software that is deliberately designed to disable itself, eventually
will. Remember that the next time someone wants to sell you very
expensive software that they want to "protect" from you after you paid
your hard earned money for it.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Alex Nichol]

I recently received a notice that I have 3 days to
Activate Windows XP. XP was activated 1.5 years ago and
no hardware changes. Message was received after I ran a
change to msconfig to try and boost pc performance. Why
do I have to reactivate???

Well, without enquiring why, get on the internet and then run
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Activate Windows
and do the activation on the net - which will take about 20 seconds and
give you a fresh start (as it is over 120 days since last time).

Something may have damaged the record on the machine, or this can happen
(it happened to me recently) if an item of hardware has been disabled
and the system booted without it. That can lose one 'vote' in the
matter, and once lost it stays lost even if you put the hardware back.
In my case the last straw was disabling my NIC while trying to get a
wireless net adapter to work

 

[Ken Blake]

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I recently received a notice that I have 3 days to
Activate Windows XP. XP was activated 1.5 years ago and
no hardware changes. Message was received after I ran a
change to msconfig to try and boost pc performance. Why
do I have to reactivate???

I can't tell you why, especially since you didn't say what change
you made, but why worry about it? If it were me, I'd just go
ahead and do it. It's quick, easy, and painless.