[The Chid]

The whole "product activation" fiasco is way overplayed by the anti-Microsoft public

Agreed. I recently put XP on a second computer here at home, and, as an experiement, replaced just about everything but the HD and NIC. New motherbord, processor, memory, soundcard, video card, Zip instead of LS120, and a std floppy drive.

No product reactivation required!

[cidrasm]

��5{�������� recently put XP on a second computer here at home, and, as an experiement, replaced just about everything but the HD and NIC. New motherbord, processor, memory, soundcard, video card, Zip instead of LS120, and a std floppy drive. No product reactivation required!

Replace the NIC, I've heard that the NIC MAC address is used to derive the product activation hash.