Activation not Validating, Missing a "STEP" HP-a6745f Desk Top 500GB HD 1. Downloaded Win7 Home Prem x86 , verified SHA-1 2. Downloaded HP-a6745f Drivers for Win7 3. Reformated HD 1 partion NTFS Ran Check Disk 4. Installed Win 7 Home Prem x86 successfully! 5 Installed HP-a6745f Win 7 Drivers from HP "depository" 6.Downloaded, Verified SHA-1 Daz 2.2 Loader, Ran Loader 7. Checked My Computer-Properties still 22 day to activate left 8. Ran SLIC Tool had RED Writing In Advanced Tab My SLIC table is version 2.0 9. Ran OptTool created SUCCESSFULLY, HP-Compaq-2.1,xrm 10. Checked My Computer-Properties still 22 day to activate left 11. Re-ran Win 7 Loader by Daz, still 22 day to activate left 12. Do I need to COPY the HP-COMPAQ-2.1.xrm to MY root directory? Or Just leave it in C:\....AppData\Local\..\HP-COMPAQ-2.1.xrm When I run the SLIC Tool now and click Advanced tab I DO NOT have the red writing like I did for SLIC TABLE version 2.0. What STEP am I missing???? Its Not Validating. Thanks Hugo (The OLD GUY)