Well done microsoft
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:omg: :omg: :omg: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: do you want to try the variable overflow or what?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Well that was the idea - see if they used a 16 bit counter. I've a ways to go before I hit the 32 bit limit though...
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No seriously, well done. Replaced my motherboard and processor last week* and needless to say, Windows 10 wanted reactivation. I'd already linked the PC to my MS account, so it should be just a "I have changed hardware" reactivate. Except ... all weekend I'm getting "we can't talk to our servers" and then Sunday evening it changes to "we can't do that right now, try again later". So Monday morning I ring MS. Their guy takes over my PC and starts to have problems because he can only see one monitor of the three, and it doesn't have the toolbar or start button. And I can't move it because that counts as "personalization" and you can't do that until you activate ... Still, we muddle through, and I'm glad to see he tried what I had then paused a while (presumably to find another tech support sheet) and tried it again. STill, eventually with the help of photos of my COA, screen grabs of my MB receipt, and a fair amount of hair tearing at his end, it's all activated. Hour and a half that took. But it worked! Well done, Microsoft - Danny deserves a medal. (Mind you if your DRM wasn't so draconian, he wouldn't have been needed, would he? :laugh:) Oh - and I now have a VBS script that reads my product key from the registry in human friendly enterable characters ... might hang onto that. * Core 1 on the old one was getting too hot and causing soft errors, 75C is way too much. Probably just the thermal paste breaking down, but I've had problems removing old heatsinks before.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Microsoft is making a mashup so we could make compilations of things they are doing wrong.
