Windows Vista Tamper Detection and misbehaving apps

posted by  mneon (8)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

We've seen reports indicating that customers are being prompted to activate Windows Vista on computers on which activation had not been previously required.   This problem can occur because a specific system setting is deleted when a program runs with administrative credentials.  The removal of this setting may cause a BIOS validation check to fail; the BIOS validation check is part of the system activation process for PCs from major manufacturers.   This behavior causes a regular genuine validation check that occurs at boot time to fail.  Therefore, the customer