Video Card Switch

I have a suggestion for you. Take away the deactivation after major hardware
switches. This only takes up time from those of us who RIGHTFULLY bought our
copy of Windows Vista. Now I have to spend time on the phone and on hold
with your people just so I can RE-activate my copy of Windows that I paid
good money for. Overall, now that I have experienced this part of Vista, I
REALLY wish I would have just gone with XP. It is slow, eats up to much RAM,
bad driver support (despite beta and RC1 being available long enough for good
drivers to be made), AND wastes the time of legitmate users by making them
have to RE-activate their OS after upgrading.

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Note that Microsoft probably doesn't read these forums, and they probably
would officially respond anyways.

The problem with your take away re-activation is, If I install Vista or XP
on one of my home systems, what's to keep me from taking out the hard drive
and putting it on another system and then re-install again using the same
serial key ?

Shoplifters cost people who pay, so do software pirates

"Logan" <> wrote in message
news:1A0D0670-E0E2-4BDA-9B93-...
>I have a suggestion for you. Take away the deactivation after major
>hardware
> switches. This only takes up time from those of us who RIGHTFULLY bought
> our
> copy of Windows Vista. Now I have to spend time on the phone and on hold
> with your people just so I can RE-activate my copy of Windows that I paid
> good money for. Overall, now that I have experienced this part of Vista,
> I
> REALLY wish I would have just gone with XP. It is slow, eats up to much
> RAM,
> bad driver support (despite beta and RC1 being available long enough for
> good
> drivers to be made), AND wastes the time of legitmate users by making them
> have to RE-activate their OS after upgrading.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general

"Logan" <> wrote in message
news:1A0D0670-E0E2-4BDA-9B93-...
>I have a suggestion for you. Take away the deactivation after major
>hardware
> switches. This only takes up time from those of us who RIGHTFULLY bought
> our
> copy of Windows Vista. Now I have to spend time on the phone and on hold
> with your people just so I can RE-activate my copy of Windows that I paid
> good money for. Overall, now that I have experienced this part of Vista,
> I
> REALLY wish I would have just gone with XP. It is slow, eats up to much
> RAM,
> bad driver support (despite beta and RC1 being available long enough for
> good
> drivers to be made), AND wastes the time of legitmate users by making them
> have to RE-activate their OS after upgrading.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general


If you went with XP then your experience would have been Identical - the
activation process and re-activation after hardware changes is the same on
XP and Vista.

Driver support is an issue of the hardware manufacturers - and it is up to
you to ensure that your hardware is supported or move to a manufacturer that
does get their drivers written in a timely fashion.

--
Mike Brannigan

It only takes 5 mins to re-activate & most people don't upgrade their
computers enough for it t be an inconvenience.
I've had to reactivate XP when I moved it from my old to my new laptop & it
took only a few mins, not exactly a problem for me.


"Logan" <> wrote in message
news:1A0D0670-E0E2-4BDA-9B93-...
>I have a suggestion for you. Take away the deactivation after major
>hardware
> switches. This only takes up time from those of us who RIGHTFULLY bought
> our
> copy of Windows Vista. Now I have to spend time on the phone and on hold
> with your people just so I can RE-activate my copy of Windows that I paid
> good money for. Overall, now that I have experienced this part of Vista,
> I
> REALLY wish I would have just gone with XP. It is slow, eats up to much
> RAM,
> bad driver support (despite beta and RC1 being available long enough for
> good
> drivers to be made), AND wastes the time of legitmate users by making them
> have to RE-activate their OS after upgrading.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general