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Windows Product Activation – or just how many numbers we could get a user to tell us down the telephone

Pascal Monett Silver badge
Stop

No dice.

Every time I upgraded my graphics card - and with XP that was yearly, I had to re-authenticate with a call to Redmond HQ.

I would have thought that a graphics card was not that important in the grand scheme of things - I'm not changing the motherboard, but obviously Borkzilla did not agree.

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