Wicked fly and Andrew. Thanks a million. That worked perfectly..Done and
dusted in 5 mins.. I was getting worried.. being a student I thought I'd have
to fork out for a new key.
"Andrew McLaren" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > "sweens" <sweens[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> > Hi. I am having a problem with Vista. Its saying that missed my 3 day
> > grace
> > activation period and am now unable to activate vista. I bought a genuine
>
> Something has invalidated your existing activation. If you can't activate
> automatically over the Internet, you need to ring Microsoft and get an
> activation code. The error message you saw should have given you the phone
> number for your region (it varies, according to country). It's pretty
> straightforward, you just ring the number, ask the support person for a new
> activation code, and they give it to you, then you plug it in to Windows -
> should only take about 3 minutes.
>
> The algorithm to detect "hardware changes" is pretty complex and not public,
> so it can be hard to say what will provoke a re-activation. If it isn't a
> genuine hardware change (keyboard? I dunno) it may be a virus, which
> deliberatly deletes your activation information. So make sure your
> anti-virus signatures are up to date and run a full scan of your system.
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
> Andrew
>
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