John Dowdell wrote:

If you know you'll be replacing part of your hardware, thus breaking the old activation key, then just use that "Transfer Your License" item in the Help Menu.

I'm not sure if I am more distressed by the speciousness of this suggestion or that it seems to have been posted with the sincere belief that it is an appropriate response to the original posters problem. All too often, hardware changes are unanticipated, unplanned, and unpleasant. When a system component fails, my principal concern is restoring the system to operation. This can consume ample time without having to fiddle with an activation transfer. Moreover, how many activations should I be expected to do? If I do a planned replacement of a hard drive, should I have to budget time to transfer licenses for 15 applications? Or is it unreasonable of me to expect to use my computer with more than one application? I thought the goal was for my computer to save me time.

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