Windows Activation Decision

I have played around with boot camp, parallels and fusion and now am willing to commit to activating my windows.

Would activating it in boot camp and using any of the VM software to boot from boot camp partition cause any activation/ genuine advantage check problems?

 

It shouldn't, since the installation ID probably won't be changing. The installation ID is generated based on your computer's hardware -- if the hardware didn't change significantly, the install ID is the same and hence activation sticks.

 

also fyi windows activation is limited, however I have called up and had zero problems getting the limit extended once I explained what I was doing ( for me it was trouble shooting a faulty computer hardware issue that ended up requiring several reinstalls cause of corruption shortly after install), and from other people I have talked to said it is easy, even in normal use installs to get the activation count raised over the phone.

 

I have heard and done that before on my old Dell. Was hoping to avoid the hassle of talking to someone who barely speaks English telling me a very long Activation code. Sounds good I will do it in boot camp. Thanks.

 

ok well ya talking to someone who speaks my own language well is a thing of the past for techsupport and I should of classified that as a problem

 

I have activated XP and just ran parallels and a message box appeared asking to re-activate lame

 

You are right, it is based on your hardware, but the problem is that a virtual machine like Parallels or VMware is virtualizing generic hardware, not your actual hardware. So your hardware signature is going to be different and that will throw up a flag for Windows.

 

Yes, but the last version of Parallels is supposed to do away with the re-activation issues, isn't it?

 

:O any articles / how tos on that?