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14-March-07, 10:55 PM
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| P'Hoe'toshop Fanatic  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Colorado
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   |  Stupid Windows Problem!!! Okay, so tonight, I moved my computer around in my room. It was sitting up on my dresser, but decidied to move it to the ground. So after rebooting, Windows tells me there's been a significant hardware change and that I need to reactivate Windows. So I go to reactivate it and it wants a new product key! I just got XP Pro from MSDN through my school like 2 months ago, and it says the maximum number of times I can activate this product has been exceeded... after only one install!!!! Luckily, I had a backup key that I haven't been using. So my question is this: Should I take my beef up with Microcrap and bitch at them... or should I just bend over and take it? Is it even worth fighting M$? Note- the only hardware changes I've made recently was an additional Gig of RAM, totaling 2Gb... but that was over 2 weeks ago.
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14-March-07, 10:59 PM
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| Apex Tech God  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Norristown Pennsylvania
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| Re: Stupid Windows Problem!!! Knock something lose while moving it? That could of messed up winblows.
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14-March-07, 11:12 PM
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| Re: Stupid Windows Problem!!! Re: Stupid Windows Problem!!! ^^ isn't windows the issue? (click link in my sig)
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14-March-07, 11:28 PM
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| Apex Master Tech Apprentice  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA
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| Re: Stupid Windows Problem!!! MSDN Win Xp keys are single use only. All you have to do is to go to the MSDN website and click to request a new product key and tell them why, they will then send you a new key. I had to do this when I had to reinstall and it was really easy, though I know it is kind of a pain.
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14-March-07, 11:56 PM
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| P'Hoe'toshop Fanatic Join Date: May 2005 Location: Colorado
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| Re: Stupid Windows Problem!!! All very good points gentlemen. I'll shut my rig down and make sure everything's nice and snugg... course now it's a little late to go back... couldn't hurt tho. Yeah, and luckily MSDN is free, so not like I lost 100 bucks in this fiasco. And funny you should mention that s1ugh34d, I've been tempted to put linux on my laptop to try it out... maybe make it a wireless "analyzer" computer  
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