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Originally posted by Amadkow
I wondering what hapens with the authentication code stuff if you change some of the hardware on your computer. Like change the video card in your computer. Will it think it is a diffrent computer and then shut down windows on the nex t update?
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There were issues with things such as this in earlier XP betas, but MS recently announced that they were relaxing what could be done without needing to reauthorize. Keep in mind that Windows will never be totally killed, rather you will just have to contact MS to re-authorize it. I'm sure if someone at MS punches the new code your computer has generated into their system, they can see what the change was. A single change, such as memory or a video card, shouldn't be an issue with them giving the OK to a new authorization code, but if the only thing the same is the hard drive, they might wonder...