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Originally Posted by Shazam
I just changed my XP VPC image from 512 to 1024 to 2048 megs of RAM. No sign of activation.
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I'm don't use VPC.
I did just upgrade the software that runs my vm. I didn't need to activate afterwards, and it was running fine. I just decided to bump the RAM to see what would happen, and that's when I got hit with another activation.
Obviously, bumping the RAM after the upgraded engine was installed caused a new hardware ID to be created, which caused Windows to run its activation process again...
The point, though, is that I paid for the OS. It pisses me off that MS treats everyone like a criminal and forces them to prove otherwise. How many people have gotten the message that they can't activate anymore, and had to go to the store to spend another $400 on a new copy of Windows... all because they re-installed it or changed their hardware too many times?
It's ironic that they do this to combat software piracy, yet the very practice itself just promotes more software piracy.