Windows Vista Home Premium - Pre-installed
Hello,
I have a really strange Activation issue going on with my Vista:
When I go to my Activation screen it reads Active and everything looks fine, upon launching certain programs / applications / games the Activation status changes to Inactive.
When I quit the programs / applications / games the Activation goes back to Active status.
When I leave the programs /applications /games open and hit the Activate Windows button, it actually gives me an error code - 0x8007005, Description Access Denied.
Now, before I get into this I just want to say that I have called in and Activated my Windows Vista by phone successfully. Of course to get any kind of feedback from Microsoft you have to pay quite a bit of money, so I'm trying to get as much feedback on this issue prior to spending the money on what appears to be an actual Microsoft error.
I've done my homework on this and from what I have learned I am not alone with this.
This is the first link that I was given from the Windows Vista Discussion Group forums on this issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931573
I have downloaded that update manually from that site and attempted to install it. Upon running the install it basically tells me, "this software is not compatible with your system" and does not install.
After reading that site provided you can see that for whatever reason this new BIOS Validation Check may be the cause of this error, but I can't even install the hotfix.
Is this just a display error or is my copy of windows actually inactive even though I've called in and activated it?
If anyone has any ideas as to what I can do to get rid of this problem I would really appreciate the help.
Also, I want to know how many times you can actually activate your copy of windows be it via e-mail, phone, internet? Is there a limit if you're just reformating or is your copy yours to use on your computer for as long as you have the same hardware etc...?
Thank you,
delisimo
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