Activation after XP SP3 and again 30 days after that.

[Jake]

I have about 30 XP Pro machines that I pushed XP SP3 out to through WSUS. Within a few days I had to go around and activate Windows, it didn't give a warning or anything, just when the users tried to log in it said "You must activate windows before starting this computer. Contact your administrator." So I would then go to the computer log in as an admin and activate windows normally. So I just thought this was an annoyance, but would deal with it since there is only 30 machines. But now about a month after that happened it is happening again on the same machines, no warning again, just all the sudden the user tries to log in and can't because it needs to be activated again! What is going on???

[MacOSXrocksToo]

I have about 30 XP Pro machines that I pushed XP SP3 out to through WSUS. Within a few days I had to go around and activate Windows, it didn't give a warning or anything, just when the users tried to log in it said "You must activate windows before starting this computer. Contact your administrator." So I would then go to the computer log in as an admin and activate windows normally. So I just thought this was an annoyance, but would deal with it since there is only 30 machines. But now about a month after that happened it is happening again on the same machines, no warning again, just all the sudden the user tries to log in and can't because it needs to be activated again! What is going on???

I don't know what is going on, all that I can tell you though, is that if u click activate by telephone, and tell them the code which is provided in the activation window, and tell them it is the first time activating, you can just reactivate it. LOL, Microsucks is ssooooo secure.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

I would definitely call Microsoft; installation of a service pack should not trigger reactivation. (I certainly didn't have to activate any of the machines I installed SP3 on.)