Quote Originally Posted by steve911 View Post
It turned out that the message was being triggered simply by my having plugged my mobile phone into one of the USB ports to recharge it; the software decided that this simple action, something that many people must do every day, turned the laptop into a different, third device and that therefore I had exceeded the number of permitted activations.
I think this is the first hard evidence of what is causing the error for some TGers. I have a stable set-up for both my laptop and PC but I charge my phone from the laptop and it acts as a media device and I connect my tablet (ditto) to my PC. Neither in/out operation has ever tricked the Xara lockware.

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