A Revolution is the Solution
It's probably like when a load of the business volume licence holders hd the same problem. If I remember correctly from an article on The Register, it was a law firm of all. Hope they gave Microsoft a hard time!
Have a look around on http://www.theregister.co.uk and you'll fid it.
I have seen this before i think Xp pro seems to react Badly to a New Dsl Config or new hardware i seem to remember a whole office of machines going the same way, Sometimes i think MS is just playing games with the End users or the Net really is Alive ...
I have serious doubts there is a sane technological reason. Just a general principle regarding really huge enforcement efforts that they always included a really huge failure factor. In the case of trying to make a profit from enforcement, it gets really messy, because that means cost-cutting, etc.
HAd the very same thing with a PC I was working on for a neighbour.
He gave it to me to get rid of some nasties, which I did and then updated his windows for him at which point I started getting the NAG from Windows saying it wasnt genuine.
Tried calling MS (not much help) and the PC retailer (less help).
Appologised to my neighbour as I gave ti back but explained it was nothing I had done, but I would sort it out somehow for him and low and behold when plugged it back in to his own broadband then he got no messages about it being fake..... most peculiar!
My home PC experienced the same issue while I was beta-testing some anti-spyware software. Due to a false positive it had quarantined a key file that MS uses as a marker of genuineness. Unquarantined it, and back to normal. Apologies - not at home, can't remember which file....
I completely ditched the Genuine Disadvantage upgrade on windows, completely disabled Windows Update, and relied on 3rd party update sites and my own 'surfing wisdom. Yeah, I'm pretty much "leaving myself wide open", but extra security is not worth the hassle of dealing with buggy releases.
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