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LTK:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 11 Dec 2013, 14:21 ---I think you can often get around activation oddities by going to phone activation. If you're using a copy of 8 that has previously been used on another machine, there are a number of official tips here.
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The activation oddities aren't on Win8, but Win7, and I think that if I just enter my product key again it should be fixed. How to deauthorize the product key is welcome knowledge but in this case it won't help me because Win7 has only been installed once, even though I'm using it on two computers.
--- Quote from: snalin on 11 Dec 2013, 14:23 ---So a Windows activation is only valid for a single computer at a time, as far as I'm aware. As in you're allowed to move it between computers, but how you do that, I've got no idea about.
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Didn't I tell you about that? I pulled the system drive out of my desktop computer and jacked it into my laptop. Easy as pie if you've got an SSD.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: LTK on 11 Dec 2013, 15:16 ---I pulled the system drive out of my desktop computer and jacked it into my laptop. Easy as pie if you've got an SSD.
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That is exactly the sort of thing that will cause a need to reactivate. The validity check takes parameters from the motherboard, the network interface, the system disk, and a few other bits and bobs (I've got a list somewhere), and if more than a certain proportion of them have changed decides that the computer no longer counts as the same as when it was last activated and triggers a new activation request.
LTK:
Windows 8.1 decided it would be best if my laptop is passworded with my Microsoft account instead of the normal user account. Now it is apparently unable to load my user profile and I can no longer access the system.
Fucking class act, Microsoft.
Pilchard123:
What, so you can't get into it if you have no Internet connection?
LTK:
At first I thought that was the case, but no, I can't get into it at all.
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