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    System is a bit wacky all of a sudden

    The name of the company that makes the software is Winternals and the program name is ERD Commander. Basically, if you boot up your system and get the "Blue Screen" and you have tested the hardware and lets say you replaced some bad memory, but not after it has corrupted some of the main parts...
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    System is a bit wacky all of a sudden

    There is a program called "Winternals" that basically restores a Win XP install back to working order. It is a self booting CD and it is used religiously at my job when a system restore does not work, this program will work about 95% of the time. There is also another program I downloaded...
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    WordPerfect Office X3

    Several Weeks ago I was having an annoying problem with Win XP and LeeJend gave me some very useful advise and I used his solution on a few occasions, but I was still curious as to why every so often I would get the message when I rebooted my PC that "Since Windows was activated,there has been...
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    Windows Re-activation Issue

    Thanks LeeJend. I will be backing up the WPA file as you suggested and follow the other suggestions. When and if I get the re-activation request again, I will restore it and hope for the best. Thanks again.
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    Windows Re-activation Issue

    Thanks for the feedback. To answer the question if I have a Dell, I do not. As for my experience with MS - maybe I got a rep that was having a bad day. Don't know. When it did happen again, I did purchase another copy of Win XP. I thought that maybe one of the many MS patches might have caused...
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    Windows Re-activation Issue

    Re-activating is not the problem. I am more interested in why this happens. It did not happen in the past. I know that adding new hardware like a hard drive or upgrading a CPU will trigger a re-activation, but I am not convinced that upgrading a driver or copying a CD or DVD should cause this as...
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    Windows Re-activation Issue

    Hello Everyone - I am new to a forum, but my son said that this is the place to get answers to questions so here it goes. I recently had to make a backup copy of a DVD I have that has been scratched up because it started to have read issues. After making my backup copy I rebooted my PC and after...
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