It is Sunday morning and I decided it is a good a time as any to waste
jumping through the activation hoops. I was pleasantly surprised that
unlike the last time, it activated automatically online through the
Internet.
Maybe one of those Vista perfomance updates changed something in this
department? If it did it they get two thumbs up from me. :-)
Al
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:04:57 -0700, Al Kaufmann
<al_kaufmann@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Doing this is still a pain. Windows XP allowed you to do clean
>installs on you system several times beforte you had to call. All I
>had to do was change one piece of hardware and I had 2 days to
>activate. I had to call and it costs me 40 cents per minute as they
>would not work with Skype, and I entered the new activation code.
>Shortly thereafter the hard drives started to fail! I bought new hard
>drives, did a clean install and I now have 28 days left to activate. I
>am NOT looking forward to calling them. This feels too much like big
>brother is not just watching everything you do but wants to control
>you.
>
>Al