Hardware Upgrade and production Activation

[Joeski]

Just out of curiosity how much grief is Monopoly-Soft
and its Product Activation software going to give me when
I do a serious hardware upgrade, i.e. graphics card, hard-
drive, memory(256 to 512)

As with anything by Monopoly-Soft I assume it will not
be painless.

regards,

Joeski

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Read the following articles and become educated:

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Alex Nichol]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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|
| Just out of curiosity how much grief is Microsoft
| and its Product Activation software going to give me when
| I do a serious hardware upgrade, i.e. graphics card, hard-
| drive, memory(256 to 512)
|
| As with anything I do, I assume it will not
| be painless.
|
| regards,
|
| Joeski

 

[Joh N.]

Carey Frisch [MVP], after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen
to use, wrote:

|
| Just out of curiosity how much grief is Microsoft
| and its Product Activation software going to give me when
| I do a serious hardware upgrade, i.e. graphics card, hard-
| drive, memory(256 to 512)
|
| As with anything I do, I assume it will not
| be painless.
|
| regards,
|
| Joeski

Read the following articles and become educated:

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

It would have been much simpler to just say 'Yes, the transition will be
extremely painful'.

Joh N.

 

[hermes]

Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, Carey Frisch [MVP]
typed:

Read the following articles and become educated:

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Alex Nichol]

Just out of curiosity how much grief is Microsoft
and its Product Activation software going to give me when
I do a serious hardware upgrade, i.e. graphics card, hard-
drive, memory(256 to 512)

As with anything I do, I assume it will not
be painless.

regards,

Joeski

Suggest you read the info from the following link:
http://microscum.com/mmpafaq/

--
hermes
DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

 

[Alex Nichol]

It would have been much simpler to just say 'Yes, the transition will be
extremely painful'.

which it will not. Even if he does so much upgrading that he has to
reactivate by phoning (toll free) it is only a few minutes.