Activation Issue

I installed Vista HP as part of a dual boot system about 8 months ago
and successfully went through the activation process.

Been running fine since then.

For a variety of reasons I hadn't applied any updates for quite a
while and a few days ago decided to catch up.

Downloaded about 50 megs of updates and applied themall only to find
my machine rebooting endlessly.

After a lot fo stuffing around, I was eventually able to reboot into
safe mode and use the restore system to take me back to the restore
poin on the day prior to the updates - which was long after intial
activation.

Again all seemed fine and as I didn't know which updtae caused the
problem and didn't have toime to investigate, I just left things as
they were.

Now after a few days I keep getting a small popup from the system tray
saying "to activate Windows, click here".

I am concerned that I am suddenly going to find that i am not
activated, but why should this happen? Don't really want to go
through activation again.

If you know you own a legitimate license for Windows Vista, you shouldn't be
concerned about getting it activated again. Just use the phone activation
option and explain the situation and you should be back up and running in no
time.

'Activate Vista by Phone'
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/84...sta-phone.html)

I personally don't know what could have triggered the Activation wizard
again. How long have you not updated Vista specifically?
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Andre
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"Chuck" <> wrote in message
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>I installed Vista HP as part of a dual boot system about 8 months ago
> and successfully went through the activation process.
>
> Been running fine since then.
>
> For a variety of reasons I hadn't applied any updates for quite a
> while and a few days ago decided to catch up.
>
> Downloaded about 50 megs of updates and applied themall only to find
> my machine rebooting endlessly.
>
> After a lot fo stuffing around, I was eventually able to reboot into
> safe mode and use the restore system to take me back to the restore
> poin on the day prior to the updates - which was long after intial
> activation.
>
> Again all seemed fine and as I didn't know which updtae caused the
> problem and didn't have toime to investigate, I just left things as
> they were.
>
> Now after a few days I keep getting a small popup from the system tray
> saying "to activate Windows, click here".
>
> I am concerned that I am suddenly going to find that i am not
> activated, but why should this happen? Don't really want to go
> through activation again.
>

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:53 -0500, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]"
<> wrote:

>If you know you own a legitimate license for Windows Vista, you shouldn't be
>concerned about getting it activated again. Just use the phone activation
>option and explain the situation and you should be back up and running in no
>time.
>
>'Activate Vista by Phone'
>(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/84...sta-phone.html)

Yes well if i have to, then I guess I will, but this is definitely a
failing of Vista, and it is because of other failings that I haven't
been using it. This just adds to the distrust.
>
>I personally don't know what could have triggered the Activation wizard
>again. How long have you not updated Vista specifically?

Not absolutely sure, but would be at least 2 months and could be as
many as 6. As I said when I did get to the updates there were around
50 megs worth.

Just haven't been using the Vista system, so had no need to update.