I have Windows XP Home Edition. It was purchased separately for a computer I assembled myself. Now every time I make a hardware change or even update a driver for existing hardware I have to re-activate Windows.
Why is it required to re-activate for such events? This is very annoying, and it not only a wastes my time but not to mention that somewhere there is someone whose sole job it is, is to read off a 42-digit confirmation code and ask the question (once, sometimes twice because they didn't understand you the first time) "How many computers is this software installed on?". To me this is terrible customer service. There must be a better way to profile a computer system besides the hardware profile. Hardware is constantly being updated, new and better video cards, bigger and faster RAM, etc. Not to mention if a component goes bad and you have to replace it.
If anyone knows a setting which can be changed, a proverbial switch to filp, to stop this please, please post!
scottdw