Vista re-activate due to hardware change - without any hardware changed!?!

I suddenly get the message I should reactivate Vista due to a hardware
change.

There's nothing that was changed to my hardware at all. The proposed
procedure suggests I need to have (i.e. buy!) a new key since my existing
one is already in use.

What this is? I activate my legal Vista copy last month already! I have not
changed a single screw on my PC. What should I do? I live in Luxembourg.

"Christian" <> wrote in message news:...
>I suddenly get the message I should reactivate Vista due to a hardware
> change.
>
> There's nothing that was changed to my hardware at all. The proposed
> procedure suggests I need to have (i.e. buy!) a new key since my existing
> one is already in use.
>
> What this is? I activate my legal Vista copy last month already! I have not
> changed a single screw on my PC. What should I do? I live in Luxembourg.
>

Did you, or anyone else, try to install that copy of Vista on a different computer?
If not, follow the alternative procedure of contacting Microsoft for assistance.
They can give you an activation number which will work.

In article <>, says...
> I suddenly get the message I should reactivate Vista due to a hardware
> change.
>
> There's nothing that was changed to my hardware at all. The proposed
> procedure suggests I need to have (i.e. buy!) a new key since my existing
> one is already in use.
>
> What this is? I activate my legal Vista copy last month already! I have not
> changed a single screw on my PC. What should I do? I live in Luxembourg.

Have you updated drivers recently? Some have reported that changing some
drivers may be treated like a hardware change. Too many at one time or
within a time period, and it thinks you changed the computer.

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