XP requires re-activation after 18 months

[Ray]

version of XP loaded over 18 months ago is requiring activation...cant
get past it...no hardware upgrades of any kind undertaken....loading
antivirus over a week ago is the only recent change....then today the
machine is out of action
thanks in advance for any tips....

ray

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Ray,

Haven't heard of an AV program causing that, but why not simply reactivate?
If the net connection is not avialable (and it should be from safe mode with
networking), then phone it in.

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"Ray" > wrote in message
news:3fa5eb4d.1163262@news-server...
> version of XP loaded over 18 months ago is requiring activation...cant
> get past it...no hardware upgrades of any kind undertaken....loading
> antivirus over a week ago is the only recent change....then today the
> machine is out of action
> thanks in advance for any tips....
>
> ray

[kurttrail]

Ray wrote:

> version of XP loaded over 18 months ago is requiring activation...cant
> get past it...no hardware upgrades of any kind undertaken....loading
> antivirus over a week ago is the only recent change....then today the
> machine is out of action
> thanks in advance for any tips....
>
> ray

That's what happens when you buy software that's designed to disable
itself, eventually it will.

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"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

[Malke]

kurttrail wrote:

> Ray wrote:
>
>> version of XP loaded over 18 months ago is requiring
>> activation...cant get past it...no hardware upgrades of any kind
>> undertaken....loading antivirus over a week ago is the only recent
>> change....then today the machine is out of action
>> thanks in advance for any tips....
>>
>> ray
>
> That's what happens when you buy software that's designed to disable
> itself, eventually it will.
>
Yes. It happened to me, too. The only thing you can do is reactivate and
move on.

Malke
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