Updates before Re-Activation ???

I significantly changed my hardware (MB, Video, CPU, HD's, Ram) and in an
attempt to be lazy I ghosted my running WinMCE partition to the new
hardrive and then did a Repair (2nd choice) installation of MCE over top to
pick up the hardware changes, but not loose all my installed software and
settings. Basicly, it worked fine.... everything is up and running, and all
of the new hardware is working.... but I have 3 days to re-activate, and I'm
not finished playing with new hardware configs, so I want to use those 3 days
before reactivating. But Windows Update wants to re-install the update
installer, and keeps failing with no explanation. Could this be caused by my
un-activated status? Do I need to reactivate before Windows Update will work
??????

Jim White

jimwhite wrote:

> I significantly changed my hardware (MB, Video, CPU, HD's, Ram) and in an
> attempt to be lazy I ghosted my running WinMCE partition to the new
> hardrive and then did a Repair (2nd choice) installation of MCE over top to
> pick up the hardware changes, but not loose all my installed software and
> settings. Basicly, it worked fine.... everything is up and running, and all
> of the new hardware is working.... but I have 3 days to re-activate, and I'm
> not finished playing with new hardware configs, so I want to use those 3 days
> before reactivating. But Windows Update wants to re-install the update
> installer, and keeps failing with no explanation. Could this be caused by my
> un-activated status? Do I need to reactivate before Windows Update will work
> ??????
>
> Jim White
>

The lesser of all evils is to activate and continue the
updating and re-activate. This is precisely the process
that Microsoft has elected to implement. Why do it any
differently? At the very worst, one might have to call MS
to complete the activation. But this is also part of the
process. Tell the MS rep that activation was requested by
the MS updates that you are doing. If MS balks, then go to a
supervisor. And, BTW, Microsoft is also footing the telephone
bill for the call.

About the MS Installer...at some point in the updating, the
new MS Installer needs to be installed. Nothing to do with
the current un-activated status. Welcome to the world of
continuous Microsoft Windows patching...XP is the current,
long-term beta version of Windows.