From: mike 

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:49:23 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>My XP laptop just demanded being reactivated again. (after 4 or 5 years.)
>They've done something.  It did reactivate, but can I trust it for long....


http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37917

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Microsoft can activate Vista even if it doesn't need to


SOMETIMES, it appears, that you might be asked to activate Windows Vista on
a computer on which activation wasn't required before.

The problem "rarely occurs" says the Vole, but might happen if
you install a device driver, install a program, run a new program or remove
a program.

So far the problem seems to be confined to Vista machines, but if it starts
happening to XP machines because of the WGA, be sure to let us know.

Here is the Volish note.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931573/en-us

It is like walking through narrow corridors in Byzantium we are given to
understand. But luckily we've never walked through narrow corridors in
Byzantium. In the meantime, here's a pic of Al Gore a reader mocked up for
a us a year or two back while you contemplate your Vista perambulation. æ
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