I bought a new video card yesterday, not really knowing what kind of card it was except that it was cheap (I intended it to use in my server). I saw some specs on the box that it was better than the existing EAX1650 i have in my game PC. So i decided to put the new card in there and use the “old” 1650 for my server.
Windows disagreed and went all nuts over it. I had to reactivate because my hardware configuration differed too much from the “saved profile”. Ofcourse since activation may only be done 5 times or so i had to call Microsoft and convince them, as a paying customer, that i wasn’t stealing their software and was just swapping out the videocard. Damn untrusting morons! I paid almost 150 euros for this hunk of junk OS. Isn’t that enough?
However, i understand that this is just a prevention from using their software on multiple computers. But it’s flawed at best. And very annoying on top of that. Not because i have to re-activate, but WHY i have to re-activate. There should be no activation at all.
Now let me play with my new Radeon HD3450! YARR!
Aww, come on man, don’t be down on activation, so many companies do it. lol
legalisation to prevend the illegal stuff………