15th December 2011, 9:05 PM
Oh you can change your hardware without messing that up. All you need to do is change a few keys in the registry and Windows thinks that's what your hardware has always been. Seriously MS needs to figure out a better way to let people use the software they bought.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)