OT: Activating Windows, WTF ??

Tim Streater · 2024-04-18T14:33:05+00:00

I use Win-10 in a VirtualBox VM for testing purposes. Specifically for testingthe Windows version of my e-mail client. I have a valid product key obtainedfrom Amazon, but from time to time my virtual machine gets wedged, so I haveto delete it and build a new one. This seems to get me into trouble with MS,who notice that the MAC address of the new build is different from the lastone.So this ghostly lettering appears on the screen telling me I have to "ActivateWindows". The virtual machine also appears to start behaving oddly once inthis state. One can start the activation process, and there's even a link totell them that "I have changed hardware on this machine", but after that itwants me to log on (not sure what to) and I either don't have an account orhave forgotten about it, can't remember which now.And advice as to how to get this sequence to STFU?