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John Prophet · 12-15-2003, 09:01 PM

I did a 'reference' build of a K7S5A...ran sysprep on it...ghosted it to some restore cd's.

Now, I was under the impression that there is 30 days to activate windows xp...are there any other limitations such as number of boots or anything??

Does sysprep change the issue any?

Because twice now when I have ghosted the image onto my system I would boot and use it a few times it would all of a sudden tell me on one of the boots that it had to be activated to be used and did I want to activate it now etc...?

Whats up with that? Is it a fluke? Earlier today its telling me I have 30 days, lol, now its telling me I have to activate to log on...?

Thanks, JP

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John Prophet Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 6,533	See today's most popular deals at » Windows XP Activation? (sysprep perhaps?) I did a 'reference' build of a K7S5A...ran sysprep on it...ghosted it to some restore cd's. Now, I was under the impression that there is 30 days to activate windows xp...are there any other limitations such as number of boots or anything?? Does sysprep change the issue any? Because twice now when I have ghosted the image onto my system I would boot and use it a few times it would all of a sudden tell me on one of the boots that it had to be activated to be used and did I want to activate it now etc...? Whats up with that? Is it a fluke? Earlier today its telling me I have 30 days, lol, now its telling me I have to activate to log on...? Thanks, JP __________________ "Even a fool is thought to be wise if he is silent"