Windows Activation Problems

ste-sim2x9

ste-sim2x9

ste-sim2x9

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Last night my computer stopped responding so i reformated my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7 x64. After i went into the desktop i went to activate online but it said my key could not be used. I clicked activate by phone and went through the automated product id thing but it still would not activate so it put me through to an adviser who asked me for my first 6 digits of my id code and still would not authorise. The lady asked me to phone back in 30 mins because of there system was running slow but 30 mins later she asked me for my id numbers and then still could not get it to authorise and told me phone back in 1 hour. I told her i was not happy with this and all i got was bla bla bla and she told me a retail version of windows could only be activated by the product key it came with so many times. Is that right as i thought not.
 
Ring up again & be Uber polite, Explain that it was your fault & would they be so kind as to reactivate your windows. Play the polite noob & they will sort you out, You probably just got a dodgey woman.
 
Just try it again, they should allow you to activate it as they can tell you still have the same computer as last time it activated. I've never heard of there being a limit on the number of activations (on the same computer of course).
 
Sorry I meant phone them up again :) How many times have you activated before, out of interest?
 
Just take it easy - Ive done many time over the phone as I used minicom (Im deaf with using typetalk) that went prefect - when I type the numbers then MS send me new one then it went prefect in few mins - if slow down then try again in few hours or next day - plenty of time, dont worry about it.
 
I've never heard of there being a limit on the number of activations (on the same computer of course).
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Microsoft were talking about it years ago when Vista came out, but binned the idea when the Vista problems started to come out. I'm surprised they haven't come back with the idea fir Win 7.
 
Copied this off Microsoft Win 7 forum page,


On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:29:24 +0000, Robin Bredin wrote:

Hi, What is is. I have just built my own system and transferred my copy of Win 7 Pro retail from my OEM system to my new system. I had to phone up Microsoft to get it activated on my new system.
My question is: If I have to reinstall Win 7 on my new system, will I have to phone Microsoft to get it activated, and how many times can you phone Microsoft. Thanks for your help.
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Whether you have to phone or not depends on when you need to
reactivate and whether you've made hardware changes.
You can reinstall and reactivate as many times as you want to or need
to. And even if you have to do it by telephone, you can also do it as
many times as you want to or need to. There is no limit.

Ken Blake
 
Well finally got it activated via phone but i always thought i could activate with my product key on my retail win 7 as many times as i liked but the laydy said there is a set amount of times. I activated my old vista oem over 20 times with no problem but this has not been activate more than 10 times.
 
ste-sim2x9 said:
Well finally got it activated via phone but i always thought i could activate with my product key on my retail win 7 as many times as i liked but the laydy said there is a set amount of times. I activated my old vista oem over 20 times with no problem but this has not been activate more than 10 times.
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Holy re-install Batman?

How many times do you format? I done it twice since W7 release and the 2nd one was because of a mobo failure.

Only formatted once with Vista.
 
I said i have not activated it more than 10, its been about 5 times about. My windows crashed twice due to software incompatibilitys and i moved to a 40gig ssd then moved again to a 80gig ssd and i formatted a few times to just clean up. Today i installed win 7 and all the programs i use the did a image with acronis to a can recover without reformatting again.
 
There may not be a limit on the number of activations over the lifetime of the OS, but I think lots of activations in a set period of time can throw up some flags with the Activation servers.

A sensible precaution really as it isn't normal for a Retail key to be activated over and over. 5 times or so in 9 months is probably considered a lot.
 
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