Problems Re-activating Windows Vista

I loaded Windows Vista Home Premium and then a week later, I added another MB
of memory so that it would run faster. After instaling the new memory,
Windows popped up with a message that said it recognized change so I have to
re-adctivate it. All I did was load more memory. I went to go activate it
again and I entered my product ID correctly; however, it says that it is
still in use. I don't know what to do.

activate by phone...

vista wants activation it seems even if you sneeze...

another reason why xp is better than vista


"mrblah1" <mrblah1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:746378A9-4129-4C36-843E-C7D0E860FECA@microsoft.com...
>I loaded Windows Vista Home Premium and then a week later, I added another
>MB
> of memory so that it would run faster. After instaling the new memory,
> Windows popped up with a message that said it recognized change so I have
> to
> re-adctivate it. All I did was load more memory. I went to go activate
> it
> again and I entered my product ID correctly; however, it says that it is
> still in use. I don't know what to do.

Use Phone activation -- quick and easy


"mrblah1" <mrblah1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:746378A9-4129-4C36-843E-C7D0E860FECA@microsoft.com...
>I loaded Windows Vista Home Premium and then a week later, I added another MB
> of memory so that it would run faster. After instaling the new memory,
> Windows popped up with a message that said it recognized change so I have to
> re-adctivate it. All I did was load more memory. I went to go activate it
> again and I entered my product ID correctly; however, it says that it is
> still in use. I don't know what to do.

I had the same problem as you and all I had to activate by phone. It was easy
but shouldn't have had to.
All I did was change my monitor from a samsung to a bigger samsung???
Bit of overkill in my opinion.

> "mrblah1" <mrblah1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:746378A9-4129-4C36-843E-C7D0E860FECA@microsoft.com...
> >I loaded Windows Vista Home Premium and then a week later, I added another
> >MB
> > of memory so that it would run faster. After instaling the new memory,
> > Windows popped up with a message that said it recognized change so I have
> > to
> > re-adctivate it. All I did was load more memory. I went to go activate
> > it
> > again and I entered my product ID correctly; however, it says that it is
> > still in use. I don't know what to do.
>
>
>

"s.brann" <sbrann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:968DE7C5-4847-47B6-9957-095AD3671931@microsoft.com...
>I had the same problem as you and all I had to activate by phone. It was
>easy
> but shouldn't have had to.
> All I did was change my monitor from a samsung to a bigger samsung???
> Bit of overkill in my opinion.


Changing the monitor should not cause re-activation! I changed mine from a
four-year old Tatung to a 20" HP model and there was no need to re-activate.

thats what i thought. Looks like there's still a lot of bugs to be worked out.
It turned out curry's had sent the wrong model so i had to change my monitor
again and no activation issues this time???

"Brian W" wrote:

>
> "s.brann" <sbrann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:968DE7C5-4847-47B6-9957-095AD3671931@microsoft.com...
> >I had the same problem as you and all I had to activate by phone. It was
> >easy
> > but shouldn't have had to.
> > All I did was change my monitor from a samsung to a bigger samsung???
> > Bit of overkill in my opinion.
>
>
> Changing the monitor should not cause re-activation! I changed mine from a
> four-year old Tatung to a 20" HP model and there was no need to re-activate.
>
>
>

"Tiberius" <James@tiberius.kirk> wrote in message:

> vista wants activation it seems even if you sneeze...

All I did was to think about upgrading. . .and it happened!

s.brann wrote:

> I had the same problem as you and all I had to activate by phone. It was
> easy but shouldn't have had to.
> All I did was change my monitor from a samsung to a bigger samsung???
> Bit of overkill in my opinion.
>
Why? Don't you know that software pirates are always changing their
monitors? Microsoft knows.

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I have had the same problem after re-installing vista - can anyone give me
the phone number (UK) as this seems the only option.
--
Roger


"mrblah1" wrote:

> I loaded Windows Vista Home Premium and then a week later, I added another MB
> of memory so that it would run faster. After instaling the new memory,
> Windows popped up with a message that said it recognized change so I have to
> re-adctivate it. All I did was load more memory. I went to go activate it
> again and I entered my product ID correctly; however, it says that it is
> still in use. I don't know what to do.