monsieur_henri

I think that you will find Microsoft's activation policies a little more lenient than usual during the first 30 days of the public release. I installed Home Basic on a machine that went haywire twice, switched it to another machine WITHOUT activating until I could upgrade two hardware components, then re-activated. Although the activation call went to India and I had two crunch a set of 54 numbers back and forth, they were very polite and nice about it. The whole activation ordeal lasted about ten minutes. Don't be affraid of activation if you have a genuine copy!