activate xp Home ed?

[JM]

I had my old programs installed on a new PC. and XP H.E. installed .it has
been exactly 30 days since this happened and today i was not able to log on
.. it says to continue , i need to activate xp . But when i try(to activate)
it says its already activated .. also i never got any prompts in the taskbar
saying it needs to be activated .. does anyone know what is going on and how
i can get xp going again .. Im on DSL connection
JM

 

[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 had my old programs installed on a new PC. and XP H.E. installed .it has
| been exactly 30 days since this happened and today i was not able to log on
| . it says to continue , i need to activate xp . But when i try(to activate)
| it says its already activated .. also i never got any prompts in the taskbar
| saying it needs to be activated .. does anyone know what is going on and how
| i can get xp going again .. Im on DSL connection
| JM