Re: Windows XP End-of-Live (was Re: Thank You Tim Perry)

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> John O wrote:
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>> "Arny Krueger" <arnyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Ron(UK)" <ron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Microsoft don't seem to be bothering about preventing
>>>> folks authorising old versions of WinXP,
>>
>> Old activations seem to fall out of their system after
>> six months or so. You still can't activate the same copy
>> of XP or Office three times in a week, but once a year
>> has never been a problem. Anecdotally they are loosening
>> up on the whole thing for older versions.
>
> Well, if you had a problem system and had for example to
> replace both the hard drive and mobo separately during
> fault finding you might have to re-activate twice in one
> week. Not sure what else would force a re-activation.

The rules for activation can catch one by surprise. I got forced through 
activtation a week or two back over a sound card install. It was a Card 
Deluxe, not something common.