Does MC9 look at hard drive config when deciding whether it has been "moved"? For some reason, MC9 build 109 continually expires on my laptop, whereas my desktop has no problems at all. I have re-activated it on my laptop 3-4 times now, so something is seriously wrong. I don't even use it that often on my laptop, but I activated it on Saturday, and now I had to re-activate it again - good thing the restores last 2 weeks.
The only thing I can think of is that I have an IBM 1Gb Microdrive PC Card that I plug in (and unplug) all the time. Could the presence/absence of this be causing MC9 to believe it has moved to another PC? I tried running a test by running MC9 with the MD plugged in, then again with it unplugged, but couldn't make it happen, so maybe it's not the MD. If not, I have no idea what it could be, but this is a big problem for me - I'll be out of restores soon.
Anyone else running MC9 with a Microdrive? Anyone else seeing this same problem on their laptop?
Here is the system info (without Microdrive plugged in):
Media Center Registered 9.0.109 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2386 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 752 MB, Free - 353 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2312 Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None