Activate windows; already activated

[Guest]

I know this issue has been brought up , but nothing that helped other people
is helping me. Basically, I reinstalled windows, and got the regular activate
windows box. At that point I was able to either do it online, call etc...so I
siad I'd do it later. So a few hours later I went to activate and BAM it says
already activated. But, the timer keeps going down, and that worries me. I am
unable to activate windows. I tried changing the oobetimer in the registry,
and I renamed/deleted wpa.dbl and that didn't work either. Anyone have
anything else I can do?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Reboot your computer into "Safe Mode".
While in Safe Mode, rename the wpa.dbl and wpa.bak files located in the
\Windows\system32 folder.

This will force activation on the following boot,
but should remove the message that you are already activated message.
Sometimes if these files get corrupted, they can cause this type of problem.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I know this issue has been brought up , but nothing that helped other people
| is helping me. Basically, I reinstalled windows, and got the regular activate
| windows box. At that point I was able to either do it online, call etc...so I
| siad I'd do it later. So a few hours later I went to activate and BAM it says
| already activated. But, the timer keeps going down, and that worries me. I am
| unable to activate windows. I tried changing the oobetimer in the registry,
| and I renamed/deleted wpa.dbl and that didn't work either. Anyone have
| anything else I can do?