WPA on Vista 64 Ultimate

/RANT ON
I am getting so tired of WPA. So far, I have had to activate this machine 5
times. Once was for a legitimate hardware change (Motherboard died). The
other 4 are for Significant hardware changes THAT ARE NOT OCCURING. This is
driving me nuts. I changed the speed of my RAM once in BIOS.. Oh.. Please
reactivate. I upgraded a card.. oh... reactivate. Today.. I get home from
work.. there is a message on my screen.. You have 1 day to activate. WTH?
Nothing has changed. You know.. it would not be so bad if I could just
reactivate online.. but NO.. apparently my changes are SO major that I have
to call it in.. again.. and waste ANOTHER 20 minutes trying to get this crap
activated again.
/RANT OFF

Okay.. so that being said, What are my options besides going back to XP SP2
or Linux? Why would this keep deactivating? Is there a way I can back up my
activation and reapply it in the event it happens again? Like I said before,
the hardware DID NOT CHANGE.. so in theory, the backup should reactivate my
system for me.. so what files would I need to back up?
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The only people Windows Product Activation really effects are legal users,
the pirates don't care and just disable it.

=?Utf-8?B?RmFkZWQ=?= <> wrote in
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> Okay.. so that being said, What are my options besides going back to
> XP SP2 or Linux?

None, i'm afraid. Live with it or move on.

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Get another system, seriously. I have a custom built system, plus two other
systems running a combination 32 and 64 bit Vista, and I don't get any such
issues.
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Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Faded" <> wrote in message
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> /RANT ON
> I am getting so tired of WPA. So far, I have had to activate this machine
> 5
> times. Once was for a legitimate hardware change (Motherboard died). The
> other 4 are for Significant hardware changes THAT ARE NOT OCCURING. This
> is
> driving me nuts. I changed the speed of my RAM once in BIOS.. Oh.. Please
> reactivate. I upgraded a card.. oh... reactivate. Today.. I get home from
> work.. there is a message on my screen.. You have 1 day to activate. WTH?
> Nothing has changed. You know.. it would not be so bad if I could just
> reactivate online.. but NO.. apparently my changes are SO major that I
> have
> to call it in.. again.. and waste ANOTHER 20 minutes trying to get this
> crap
> activated again.
> /RANT OFF
>
> Okay.. so that being said, What are my options besides going back to XP
> SP2
> or Linux? Why would this keep deactivating? Is there a way I can back up
> my
> activation and reapply it in the event it happens again? Like I said
> before,
> the hardware DID NOT CHANGE.. so in theory, the backup should reactivate
> my
> system for me.. so what files would I need to back up?
> --
> The only people Windows Product Activation really effects are legal users,
> the pirates don't care and just disable it.