I have a Dell C840 with W7 Enterprise in a docking station so it has two available Wired network cards and a wireless one.
Up till recently I've been using the wired connection in the dock, but I'm reconfiguring my home network and want to use the Wireless one.
I discovered some time ago that the access to the internet is faster if there is only one network card active, so I did all the updates yesterday and after disabling the wired one and using the wireless one. Restarted OK.
Today when I turned it on it came up with NOT Activated so I tried to activate and it refuses to do so. I tried re-entering my key and it still fails.
After a think, I put a cable in the port on the laptop ( not the dock), enabled that port which hasn't been used since W7 was installed when it first came out, and restarted. Lo and behold Windows is already activated.
Now the Wireless card has been sat in this machine for several years and up till recently was enabled along with the Wired port so there have been no hardware changes as such.
I can get round it by enabling the wired card and disabling it after start up and activation is recognised then disabling it and using the wireless, but I don't see why MS considers my disabling a card as a significant change.
Any Ideas? .....
Up till recently I've been using the wired connection in the dock, but I'm reconfiguring my home network and want to use the Wireless one.
I discovered some time ago that the access to the internet is faster if there is only one network card active, so I did all the updates yesterday and after disabling the wired one and using the wireless one. Restarted OK.
Today when I turned it on it came up with NOT Activated so I tried to activate and it refuses to do so. I tried re-entering my key and it still fails.
After a think, I put a cable in the port on the laptop ( not the dock), enabled that port which hasn't been used since W7 was installed when it first came out, and restarted. Lo and behold Windows is already activated.
Now the Wireless card has been sat in this machine for several years and up till recently was enabled along with the Wired port so there have been no hardware changes as such.
I can get round it by enabling the wired card and disabling it after start up and activation is recognised then disabling it and using the wireless, but I don't see why MS considers my disabling a card as a significant change.
Any Ideas? .....