I'm not really a computer noob ( Building a new rig in the next month or so hopefully) but today something really strange happened. It came up with a message at the XP welcome screen saying:
"Your computer hardware has changed substantially since first installing XP, You will need to Re Activate it within the next 3 Days"
Those weren't the excact words, but the main problem is my Hardware hasn't changed for at least 6 months and the only thing I ever changed was the GPU. Why is it saying that now? Could it be linked to a Harddrive problem which is on its way out (As I will explain later)
So without futher ado because I was in a hurry I activated it again, no problems here it seemed to activate fine.....
Next big problem was when I actually loaded into Windows it was running soooooo slow... The Harddrive was on fulll whirring constantly! Everything went so slow it too about a minute to load up Outlook (Normally takes like 5 seconds). Is this my Harddrive Failing/Registry Mess Up/Viruis???
Thanks in Advance,
Tim