JohnKenn
I realize that almost everyone has positive experience with dongles. Good relations with online activations.
Envy you guys. Don't know if it my registry cleaner or what. Have had a couple good and painless activations.
Total side note here: I know lots of people love them, but I've never been a fan of any kind of registry utility. Actually I take that back, there was a time when I was a huge fan of them. That was when I made a living from doing computer break/fix. When I was getting paid to clean up the messes those registry utilities are capable of creating I absolutely loved them, or at least I loved that other people loved them.
Yeah I know there are tons of people who have used them for years and never had an issue yada yada yada. All I know is there was a time when so long as there were people using those registry utilities (and recommending them to all their friends) or households with young kids and/or old people (both groups will happily click ANYTHING a pop-up tells them to click), I was always going to be well-fed and have a shiny new car sitting in my driveway.
Some folks proudly say they'll never use software that requires a dongle. I will never use any kind registry utility. If there's something in my registry that needs to come out, I go in and manually remove it. If its too the point where the registry needs to be 'cleaned' then I wipe the drive and do a clean install. Effectively cleans the registry in a very bullet proof way and also cleans the drive itself i.e. removing the errant dll's themselves and whatnot.