Star 'Driver Updates Causing Vista to Deactivate'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Oct 2007 18:55 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Windows "After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA - something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation. Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into 'reduced functionality' mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour. You'll then need to reapply to Microsoft to get a new activation code. How can this crazy situation occur? Read on for the sorry tale."
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RE[3]: Its so depressing.
by tomcat on Thu 25th Oct 2007 00:43 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Its so depressing."
tomcat
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2006-01-06

Yes, but now we're talking about updating drivers, and when this is caused by the toshiba or whatever manufacturer's utility included on the machine upgrading drivers or someone having a problem and being told to update their drivers to the newest version, we see the major issue. Well, actually, what will probably end up happening is they'll think that their computer is worn out and just buy a new one, all because they updated their drivers a few too many times.


No, we don't know if simply incrementally updating drivers causes this problem. The author of this article upgraded drivers from DX10 from DX9. That's essentially a brand new replacement driver. It isn't just a point upgrade.

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