Just fired it up to see what it looked like.
They wanted me to "Activate" the product before the 50th use.
Geeze, I paid my money....now they want me to jump through their hoops?
Brings back unpleasant memories of Intuit's QuickBooks...
When did MS start this? It's not in 2000.
2002?
Did the activation thing just to see what would happen.
Not much, it turns out. "Registrati on" is a separate
issue and optional.
What did I do? Limit this copy/product code to working on a given PC?
Give away the farm?
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PeteCresswell
Nov 12 '05
30  1528 
Hello
Well, that is windows XP
Normally you should not re)active an office product at all
/chris
"Tony Toews" <tt****@teluspl anet.net> wrote in message
news:tq******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... "(Pete Cresswell)" <x@y.z> wrote:
In retrospect, I think I made a mistake by doing it online instead of
over thephone. Online, I'd guess they can associate CPU info with the key.
Yes, but folks have analyzed the data sent and have deduced how it works.
AFAIK there is no means of using any kind of CPU serial number. It's more a
matter of combinations of hard drive size, ram size and other factors. If you
change too many of these in under 90 or 120 days it wants to activate again. Or is that
Windows XP? Hmmm, I could be completely wrong.
Tony
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Geeze, I paid my money....now they want me to jump through their hoops?
Brings back unpleasant memories of Intuit's QuickBooks...
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2002?
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