Activation and reactivation and so on, and so on ...

[kurttrail]

Just one comment. Microsoft will *not* have got their money. That so
called 'Corporate' version is a pirated volume license for which MS
have received nothing

Merely reformatting (and I cannot see why the OP is doing it five
times a day) will not cause you to run out of ability to activate on
the net. If he *is* doing this he gets a new 30 days in which to
activate each time, so he probably never needs activate at all.

There is however one point that can conserve a 'vote' in the matter
if you reformat: See the 'Format Hard disk' section at my page
www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

Oooh, Jump through more hoops. And how many people now have been screwed
over by PA being corrupted?

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[Guest]

It's great to see that I'm not the only one that can see a shafting coming from microsoft and can see the whole idea is foolish or is setting the consumer up for forced operating system upgrade. You can almost tell from some postings who works for microsoft and who uses prefab computers or uses only upgrade versions instead of full versions. People that don't build thier own from scratch will never understand the troubles you can run into when installing all the different programs. They probably never had to deal with the blue screen of death that only goes away if you pull the plug on the tower to get it to shut down then have to find what conflicted with what and why

Companies tend to tell you anything just to make you go away and you can never believe everything you read. I read that you can install it on one desktop and one laptop without violating the policy then they say you cannot install it on two desktops in the same house. What's the difference as long as it is in one home address and not a bussiness? They also say you can buy an additional licence, why would someone pay $180.00 for another license when you can buy whole program for $190.00

Aww the old update story. Yea DvdXcopy uses a simular PA and said if they ever got in trouble an update to deactivate the PA would be made available. Well they got slammed by uncle sam and no update only a new version that satisfies the feds you have to purchase. So much for the "we'll probably have an update" story microsoft will have an update alright it will be called their next version

I think the XP version should have been named Windows FU.

 

[purplehaz]

You just use 11 files from the corp version and modify the copy you
own, so that PA is disabled on your modified copy. The only real
difference between Retail/OEM XP Pro & VL XP Pro is PA, so any added
expense of VL, is just the lack of PA funtionality.

And is VL really that much more expensive? I wouldn't know, I never
looked into it.

Interesting......... I didn't know you could do that. I'll have to look into
it.

 

[purplehaz]

<snip>

Yes you did, but who really needed a cracked version of MS software
until PA?

Ahhhh......... Danielson........ very wise............ lol.