Carl, On Thursday 15 September 2005 09:13, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2005 12:02, James Knott wrote:
Sunny wrote:
XP allows 3 minor changes before it requires reactivation, and I had luck with replacing a hard drive.
Apparently, adding memory is not considered a minor change. A while ago, I added some memory to a friend's notebook. That was enough to require reactivation.
Exactly. No one here can predict this, especially when you're changing out the system drive. <snip>
If you search the Net, you can find a lot of material by people who've attempted to reverse engineer the functionality in Windows XP as well as some information (certainly nothing definitive) from Microsoft. You can find some information about the "formula" that captures the hardware change threshold for requiring reactivation.
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bye!
- Carl
Randall Schulz