Re: Upgrading XP computer. Will it need re-activation?

["Dr Zoidberg" <AlexNOOO!!!!!!!!@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"<p>sychotic <c>hicken" <"\"Bill Jillians\""@mysteryisp.com> wrote in 
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> I have a question about the XP operating system and adding new hardware to 
> my system.  Is this the right newsgroup for this question and if not can 
> somebody point me to a more appropriate one? Perhaps something in the 
> overblown Microsoft hierarchy?
>
> Specifically ... if I want to add more space to my computer in the form of 
> adding a new hard disk which I would have to do by taking out a zip drive 
> or a DVD drive, would XP pick up that a major change had been made and 
> require me to activate again.  I don't have the XP installation disk for 
> this computer so I'm not going to upgrade until I can be sure it won't 
> then make this computer unusable.

It might , it might not.
Even if it does , you just click "activate online" and it does it for you.
If that fails then it's a three minute phone call to an automated system.

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Alex

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