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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Help & Troubleshooting => Topic started by: janbo on May 19, 2016, 11:06:08 PM
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Just install AHP with lifejacket on windows XP, all seems to working(AHP with plug-in's) but with one little problem. Every time I start windows it says it needs to be activated, should I just put the license code in or is something more going on? XP worked ok before I installed AHP. The XP computer is one I use for music files and did have a ver of AHP on it but not working.
The main computer I use is running win10 and does have AHP on it and working ok but without the plug-in's working. Would like to have the plug-in's working on the win10 computer. The problem I have with the XP ver,,so this normal?
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I had a similar thing happen to me and it was not even an AHP install triggering it.
I had a hard drive starting to make noise and replaced it. Used the manufacturers clone program and got a new Volume ID.
AHP became unregistered as I understand it uses the Volume ID. Lifejacket was still in its early stages of development and didn't fix my AHP. It is very possible it can now.
XP also triggered an Activation message. I believe in my case {been awhile} I just said yes to activate and it worked. Though I did not have to reenter the license code.
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I haven't used Lifejacket yet, but from what I remember, don't you need to change the volume ID on the hard drive to match the old one? I think changing the volume ID will cause Windows (XP, at least) to trigger the "reactivation" prompt. I think there used to be a phone number to call Microsoft to get a new activation code.
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Lifejacket does change the volume ID however this never affected any XP machine I tested it on.
it is possible to revert back to the old ID lifejacket saves that info on first run.
you could revert to the old id to see if that helps.
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Noam,
Reactivation was what I had to do.
The Seagate software clone of the old noisy hard drive changed the Volume ID on the replacement and I don't know the original ones Volume ID. ::)
That also caused AHP to squawk.
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Just a follow up on my last post. Did reactivated windows and all is well. Did notice one little item, ask to connect to internet for activation, hit the button for that and never did connect, just activated windows.