i've had 6 pc in the shop today that require activation 4 with genuine licence and 2 without.

wonder what microsoft are up to ?

edit.... yes re-activaion....

2nd edit 2x more pc's in

[Edited on 12/7/07 by graememk]

Re-activation?

Or had they not been activated before?

Does it ask for the seriel number again?

Might not be MS, might just be something thats deleted the reg key. virus / spyware / malware.

Bet these are all Vista machines

nope all xp oem pc mixed makes and yes it is microsoft asking

there must be a update that knocking out multiple activation of serial numbers

They've probably lost one of their Activation databases

Wasn't patch Tuesday on the 13th last month? 30 days ago!!

It was patch Tuesday this week. There were a few critical updates iirc.

Nothing in our network has needed it - all have OEM copies of XP Pro. Are the affected ones XP home?

Cheers


Vince

I have been informed by microsoft that my software is not genuine. The software was installed on the laptop when i bought it from comet, now i am no longer getting updates.