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The laptop I activated earlier this year was part of a test I ran, not
originally intended for actual use, but as it happens I reloaded that
image a few days ago to see what would happen, and it's still activated.

Do you mean you reloaded it to the machine it was originally on, or to a
different machine? If the original, I wouldn't expect it to be other
than still activated - I've not heard of activations "going bad", nor of
machines checking to see whether they're bad, unless you're still doing
updates. (Which I suppose I am - I installed the POS hack here, on this
legal - OEM - machine, but I haven't noticed any updates even from that
source for months, possibly longer.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"One of my dearest memories is playing the leader of a gang of gay Hell's
Angels
thundering across the Golden Gate bridge on a motorbike in fog, wearing full
Nazi regalia with a young man in a purple dress on the pillion petrified we'd
crash into the bay." Christopher Lee (1997). ["It was in _The Serial_."]