Windows Reregistration

[xwb]

This morning, my wife's machine, which she uses daily, came up with the message similar to The hardware on this machine has changed significantly, you need to reregister within 3 days.

It sits under a pile of paper and hasn't had any hardware changes for years. I can't think what could possibly have caused that - the network, disks and memory are the same as they were when we first got the machine. Nothing has changed.

The only thing I can think of is the USB scanner which we share between machines. Surely adding and removing USB devices isn't considered significant or is it?

 

[linney]

It is not an unheard episode that you mention, the worrying thing is that it might be a sign of some corruption in the operating system, perhaps in the Registry. Activating (over the Internet) to be in compliance should solve the problem, and if the problem is only minor corruption concerning the Activation status then that should be the end of the matter.

 

[ANFPS26]

I get that message occasionally. I've had it on a couple of PCs. Re-registering has always worked over the Web. I've never had to make a phone call.

Jim

 

[xwb]

Yes, registering over the net seemed to fix it. This is the first time I've seen something like this on a real machine.

Normally it happens on VMWare when I make a clean copy of an OS for testing and then just bin it after testing. The 3 days doesn't really matter as I'm only using it for a couple of hours.