What exactly prompts re-activate?

[Stone_age]

A friend of mine, using XP home sp2, just bought nero ultimate, and installed it. He imediately got a re-activate prompt. He swears no hardware changes have been made. Why in the world would an app cause that??

And I know I've seen it here somewhere, but what hardware changes does XP look for besides the obvious motherboard/cpu/vidcard/hardrive?

[Andromeda43]

Try System Restore and go back a day.

Next time, shut down ALL running software before installing anything new.

Cheers,

[Asin]

I don't know much about activation itself, but I do know that Nero installs a virtual optical drive by default. That could be considered a hardware change if you want.