Cy!on wrote:[color=blue]
>
> "Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
> news:OlPDKP90IHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Colin Barnhorst wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Why in the world would he have any need to reactivate? He is just
>>> changing the case for heaven's sake. You don't really think he will
>>> have to upgrade his case driver do you? :)
>>>[/color]
>>
>>
>> Yes, I have had to reactivate Vista at least twice simply because
>> Microsoft said so, all I did ws turn the machine off and back on
>> again, so do not ridicule the OP for what is a MICROSOFT PROBLEM.
>>
>> You cannot run a business by continually calling legitimate purchasers
>> thieves and liars... Microsoft have officially called me a thief on a
>> number of occasions, I know I am not and it does not bother me, but
>> many people it does bother and frankly if Ballmer chose to do that in
>> person he might well regret doing so.
>>
>> The OP is right to ask, it is a legitimate question because the
>> smallest change in configuration used to trigger it. Lucky you if you
>> have not experienced it.[/color]
>
> Personally, i bought an OEM copy of Vista and after installing it on one
> pc, upgraded to a quad-core pc with only one hard drive moving over (now
> D:), re-installed Vista and didn't do anything different from the first
> time i installed it. I've since added more drives, changed graphics
> cards, upgraded BIOS, changed this and that and Vista has never once
> said anything about hainv to reactivate anything.
>
> Although i have to ask how a piece of plastic that is only connected to
> the actual pc by 4 screws would ever trigger anything. Unless the pc
> has motion sensors?[/color]


My point is that I did NOTHING at all and had to reactivate on two
occasions with two PCs.