windows activation

[slick2004]

I just reinstalled xp home, I changed a few things and now im having a problem activating, is there any way around this, how do I shut it off? Im using the real key off the side of my pc.

Thanks

 

[n0cmonkey]

If you can't activate over the internet give Microsoft a call.

 

[jlbenedict]

What version of XP Home (OEM, Retail)?

You've mentioned that you've "changed a few things"; well.. what did you change? Motherboard, CPU, or something minor??

Like n0cmonkey mentioned in the above post; call

 

[slick2004]

hard drive , video card , sound card, its oem

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: slick2004
hard drive , video card , sound card, its oem

You are going to have to call to activate. Thats alot of hardware changes at one instance for an XP OEM activation/install.

 

[Navid]

That's well within the acceptable number of changes even at one instance for OEM. However, changes are accumulative. You need to know how many changes you have made since the last time it was activated. That's what counts!

Network adapter MAC ID 3
Hard drive 1
XP partition volume ID 1
Graphics card 1
System RAM size 1
CPU type 1
CPU serial number 1
SCSI adapter 1
IDE adapter 1
Optical drive 1

The number in front of each item is the number of votes that item has. so, the MAC id is the only item that has 3 votes. Every other item has one vote. You can change as many items as you want as long as you have 7 unchanged votes and you will not need to re-activate. http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_faq.mspx


You are given a choice of activation over the net or over the phone. Choose the second and attempt to activate over the phone using the number that you are given. If it fails, you will be connected to a live person who will tell you what to do.

 

[nweaver]

phone activation is (usually) painless..I say usually because their computers were down a few nights ago, when I was in a crunch to make an image, and it appeared both Internet and phone were down.

 

[alent1234]

try this

reroll box, don't activate

install Microsoft Update from Windows Update and the latest validation tool. then try to activate

 

[pkme2]

I did an activation by phone last week. It took less than 8 minutes. All I did was talk into the phone with a MS computer, followed directions, got the new activation key and I was finished. Painless and quick. May all my other problems be as so.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: pkme2
I did an activation by phone last week. It took less than 8 minutes. All I did was talk into the phone with a MS computer, followed directions, got the new activation key and I was finished. Painless and quick. May all my other problems be as so.

For OEM, you will end up talking to a live person. It will still take a reasonable time as long as everything is legit.

 

[pkme2]

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: pkme2
I did an activation by phone last week. It took less than 8 minutes. All I did was talk into the phone with a MS computer, followed directions, got the new activation key and I was finished. Painless and quick. May all my other problems be as so.

For OEM, you will end up talking to a live person. It will still take a reasonable time as long as everything is legit.

My activation was a OEM, and it was the computer assisted call at 2am, Hawaii time. This is the second one in 2 months.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: pkme2

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: pkme2
I did an activation by phone last week. It took less than 8 minutes. All I did was talk into the phone with a MS computer, followed directions, got the new activation key and I was finished. Painless and quick. May all my other problems be as so.

For OEM, you will end up talking to a live person. It will still take a reasonable time as long as everything is legit.

My activation was a OEM, and it was the computer assisted call at 2am, Hawaii time. This is the second one in 2 months.

Interesting! I thought they had stopped automatic activation for OEMs. Guess I was wrong.

 

[thegorx]

calling to activate is a total pain, 1 minute is too much, I'm a paying customer, besides activation doesn't seem to thwart anything it's just a pain for what's that ?

Paying customers !!!

I imagine microsoft is figuring out that it cost too much to have a live person help activate your Microsoft products, hell, it doesn't want to waste 1 minute talking to you that cost too much of there valuable time.


oops sorry, off on a rant again

not to say that microsoft doesn't need some way of stopping people from sharing the software but there are plenty of other software companies that have far better ways that don't waste anyone's time.

 

[TG2]

Navid -

MS disabled Internet activation for certain OEM's, not all activation, a phone call is needed if a person is trying to activate a certain OEM of XP