"If your computer crashes 3 times in one year they will not give you a new unlock code"

Are you talking about product activation? If so, most companies will make allowances for more than the allowable installs in a year if you contact them directly and explain why. You might as well get used to it. Almost every recent software package launch in the last year has included some form of it, XP, MSOffice, Macromedia, Adobe...

My solution to activation schemes are those nice little apps that crack the programs. Please note that I am not advocating warez in any form. I am simply saying this is a convenient way of maintaining full use of your purchased software.

Works super here and all three of my computers. I love Nvidia and ATI. Maybe it's just your computer and has nothing to do with Nvidia.

hrm...

Found the specifics here. www.releasesoftware.com/_nvidiastore/cgi-bin/go.cgi/help?Question=reinstall_without_repurchasing

yeesh... "In the event that your software needs to be re-installed, you will need to contact nVidia in order to unlock the software."

What it seems to say is that the software is installed in the form of a trial. In order to activate it, you have to have an unlock code. If you uninstall it, you reinstall the old trial and request another activation code, which they have to approve you to get. If the above is true they cut you off at 3 activations in a year. I assume the code is one use only.

Is this the way it seems to work, Voodoo? Sounds like a really, really crappy way of doing things.



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I paid for the DVD player, my computer I had to reboot 3 times in one year I mannaged to get NVIDIA phone number.I had tryed emailing them telling them I said I need a new unlock code that did not work.no one from that company emailed me back.So I got their phone number and see told me she would not give me a new unlock code nor would she credit my account and she was very nasty about it .