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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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I have activated XP and just ran parallels and a message box appeared asking to re-activate
lame
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Yes, but the last version of Parallels is supposed to do away with the re-activation issues, isn't it?
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Windows Activation Decision
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Geek94, Jul 27, 2007.