Hi This is slighly off-topic, but I wonder, if this could be really true. Have you ever activated xp by phone or internet ? If not, this is the normal behavior. Windows stops working after a defined period without activating. Regards M. Rauter
I'm a QA analyst in my day job. We installed XP in our QA lab (which has no internet connections) to test software on when it first came out in MSDN. Sixty days later it quit working. Any attempt to boot on that box popped up a dialog telling us to get all the system information together and call Microsoft to get the license validation code. We never did though; we were shifting at that point to the NT testing phase, so we reimaged the XP machine instead.
Microsoft started selling XP on October 25, so I figure a couple days before Christmas this is going to start biting the general public.
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