In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
geoff wrote:
In message , John
Rumm writes

To be fair, it often does not need to go as far as speaking to a rep -
usually a reactivation via touch tone fone will fix it on a motherboard
upgrade - especially if the original has been activated for some time.


Ploughman killed my PC by proxy
^^^^^^^^^
Ahem. ;-)

It died last night from dodgy caps

Bought a new mbd today and it decided I needed to reactivate windows

... which I did over the internet - quite straightforward and painless

How did you know Windows needed reactivating? Does it give a warning?

Big FO box comes up every time you reboot asking you if you want to
re-activate now and reminding you that you have three days to reactivate


FWIW, I gave up with trying to use a cloned disc from the other machine
and did a clean install. And nowhere did it ask for me to enter an
'administrative' password.


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geoff