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I'm not having trouble activating it, I'm having trouble activating it time after time after time. In my previous post I was complaining about changing to a SCSI drive with a new SCSI card and rearranging my disk structure. I had a bunch of trouble getting XP going from EIDE to SCSI and then every time I would get it going it would bombard me with XP needs activating, Norton needs activating, and Adobe needs activating. It's 2 am and I think I've got most of the bugs worked out, but it's just my way of complaining that I have to do this all the time and it just P!$$ es me off. I've spent most of tonight trying to get a failed upgrade to stop trying to upgrade. Everything works except when you want to shut down you can't shut down. I uninstalled Adobe again and that fixed it. When you re install it needs to go from ver 7.0 from the disk to ver 7.09 from the net. Apparently the upgrades hosed up somewhere and messed my shut down up. Of course I will have to activate Adobe again.

I have to go to a friends house Sunday to get his network back up after a HD failure. It will most likely be the same there. My daughters laptop with MCE was a mess a couple of months ago and my wife's machine is dead as we speak. I also have my daughters friends laptop on the kitchen table to get to when I can.

I can't say I've seen it all, but I've seen enough. It's just my way of spouting off about stupid crap that just adds to the work I have to do, but I don't think it stops a single pirate from doing anything. As far as I know, there isn't one program out there that's worth having that isn't cracked or hacked in some way. Activation is usually easy, but it still just gets on your nerves after awhile.I have had a couple of times though when every time you boot up it says to activate. Not much else to do but re install. I've spent the time searching MS for work arounds, but most of the time it's just easier to format C: than guessing any one of 15 possibilities. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get my scanner to show up and get the motherboard temp to show up and to get my volume control to show up in the taskbar. If I put it there, I reboot and it's gone. The USB scanner works, but doesn't show up in some of my programs. The motherboard temp monitor has been installed and uninstalled 5 times with no joy. Each time I boot, it acts like it's still installing.

I'm sure all this is from trying to move a ghost image from the IDE to SCSI but I just hate re installing 30 programs from scratch. That probably equals 28 restarts with about 10 more after they update on dsl.