Why do you have to re-activate XP when you do a repair

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Angus

Hello

This is a bit of a moan I suppose but every time I do a repair on a
customers Windows XP, after the repair I have to re-activate Windows and
always have to call Microsoft and go through the phone hassle. Is this
normal? Any way round it?
 
Unfortunately, this is normal, for XP. If the product activation "grace"
count passes a limit (????), it triggers this re-activation request. Also,
with a XP re-install, this wipes the product activation "clean" out of the XP
and you need to re-activate.
 
I think I've read if you haven't changed any hardware you can save a couple
of files and copy them over in safemode after the repair.

"To workaround this behaviour, you can save the Wpa.dbl file after
activation and replace the Wpa.dbl file with your saved copy after a repair.
This file is located in the %systemroot%\system32 folder."

Do a search on Google should help.
Neil
 

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