kevsta112003

Um Well i tried to restart my computer and it kind of just was restarting slowly so I pushed the restart button on front of my computer instead.

When I rebooted I got a message telling me I have 3 days to reactivate windows because of significant hardware changes. The only hardware changes I have made to this computer was changing the processor in December when I built the computer in august of 06. No other changes have been made at all.

I just clicked the "reactivate through internet" in the system tools thing and it worked, but why did it make me do this?

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Das_GroBe

stupid wga is the reason, thank god i have legal xp pro sp2 corp, windows server 2003 standard corp, and windows server 2003 enterprise corp...

kevsta112003

Huh?

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Bal3Wolf

In a word its windows, Probly when you hit reset a file got messed up and windows thought it was new hardware maybe. Corp copys never need to be reactived i have a legit one to.

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kevsta112003

hmm, well thanks. at least it was simple to reactivate. took me 3 clicks.

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Highly-Annoyed

That's really weird, because the exact same thing happened to me two days ago... All I did was turn off a SATA/RAID controller in BIOS and when I booted up my PC, Windows informed me that there had been "significant hardware changes" and that I needed to reactivate within three days... I reactivated over the Internet right away and all was well, but it is pretty odd...

Oh well.

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an51r

I had to reactivate vista three times now over the phone but luckily they were really good about it every time.