Therefore, from the point of view of WPA, it is best to make such hardware additions subsidiary ones. This means that this hardware category no longer will match - and will be seen as voting ‘no.’ This means that you may find the automatic activation rejected, even though you have not recently made any changes.
But if you format and do a new setup, it will be the device that is now in ‘first place’ that goes into the hardware hash sent to Microsoft. WPA is a means of ensuring that a single copy is not installed on more than a single machine.So, within the first 30 days after installing Windows XP, you must get the system ‘activated’ if you are to be able to go on using it.ĭue to the onboard features of some motherboards, this one hardware change is equivalent to several changes at once.Re-activation on a new setup after adding devicesIf you add devices, as mentioned earlier in relation to hard disks, the check at boot up will still find the original device, even if it is now in a subsidiary postion ( e.g., as a slave hard disk). Microsoft believes that this has been subject to much casual abuse. This page tries to fill that gap by explaining WPA in a straightforward, detailed way - and to show that it will be a lot less trouble to most people than many have feared.What’s the idea of WPA?The Microsoft License for use of Windows has always been limited to allowing installation on only a single machine (and that excludes having the same copy installed on a laptop as well as a desktop machine: only MS Office is licensed for the combination).
But the rampant misinformation is understandable, because it is hard for the general consumer to find a simple yet comprehensive explanation of just what WPA is. WPA is a fairly easy-going check when Windows boots, confirming that it is still installed on the same computer as last time it checked.
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