XP Validation

Java Jive news Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:25:58 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

On 29/12/2017 17:58, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

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.

I reloaded it back onto the same machine. I did it to see if it
had 'gone bad', in the manner of the OP's, but, as I posted above,
it seems fine, so I don't know what went wrong with the OP's.

I'm surprised you actually had to test the image in that way to
determine if the key would somehow have deactivated. There's no reason
for it to have done so.

Incidently, the activation status is stored within two very small
files. If one of them becomes corrupted/damaged for any reason, Windows
will default to a non activated status as a result. This isn't a
problem you run into with VLK editions though, as they do not and never
have required 'activation' of any sort.


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