Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

I added a gig of memory to my computer box and guess what? Upon booting my computer I was presented with a message informing me that since Windows XP was first activated on this computer the hardware has changed and it now needs to be reactivated. What!!?? I have added, changed, swapped, removed memory many times from computers and never got that message. Dunno what happened. And I couldn’t even activate it using the internet, I had to call in to the Microsoft Product Activation center, where I was gravely informed that everytime you make a hardware change you have to reactivate Windows. I know for a fact that is not true, unless Microsoft recently changed it. (I’m not always pro-microsoft. ) The nice fellow from India reactivated Windows for me, and even wished me a Merry Christmas!! Thank you, and a very Merry Christmas to you and everyone else!!