http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/more-questions-regarding-windows-xp-product-activation Help Center Topic: More questions regarding Windows XP product activation en-US Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:15:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.labnol.org/forums/search.php http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/more-questions-regarding-windows-xp-product-activation#post-527 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:34:25 +0000 Anonymous 527@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>thanks for throwing light on my doubts... </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/more-questions-regarding-windows-xp-product-activation#post-515 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:52:44 +0000 Anurag 515@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Windows Activation uses some internal hardware IDs to uniquely identify a computer (I think each hard-drive is assigned a number by the manufacturer)</p> <p>If you upgrade hardware or install some new peripheral device, it should not ask for reactivation as long as the hard-drive is the same (am not sure about motherboard)</p> <p>If in future you have to install Windows to a new machine, make sure your old machine is connected to the internet so that your Windows license becomes free (available) on Microsoft servers to be used on other computers.</p> <p>For (4) - i suggest getting the <a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/11/stop-waiting-for-windows-xp-sp3-get.html" rel="nofollow">autopatcher pack</a> from some PC World or PC Magazine CD. It's amazing though Microsoft <a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-attorneys-knock-autopatcher.html" rel="nofollow">pulled it down</a>.</p> <p>Or Windows XP SP3 is now under beta testing. So if you can wait, it will be a roll up of all hotfixes, patches released by MSFT since XP SP2. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/more-questions-regarding-windows-xp-product-activation#post-491 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:07:18 +0000 Anonymous 491@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>Amit,</p> <p>I have a licensed copy of Windows XP SP1. </p> <p>1) So, is there any issues like "you can activate n no. of times" ?</p> <p>2) is there any h/w issue i.e. "if there is n no. of changes in h/w devices it won't activate" or once a product is activated will it ask for reactivation if there are n no. of h/w changes?</p> <p>3) I am asking this because suppose in future if I have to install windows on a new machine, will I face any problem?</p> <p>4) Like I said before, I have SP1 CD, but with automatic update downloads, my system is updated with SP2. So, If I reinstall windows on a different machine, how can I install those updates too without downloading again from Microsoft site? </p>