Activation Troubles

[Guest]

When I try to activate Windows online, it tells me that my CD key has been used too many times...so, I try a new one
It gives me an 'incorrectly typed' error every time I retry. I've checked it many many times and tried it many many times more. It just won't work
Something at the bottom says "Message number: 45092
And when I click on the "...vistit the Microsoft Activation Assistance Web Site for information..." link, it sends me to a 404 error
The link sends me to... "https://pa.one.microsoft.com/portal.asp?req=55285010090204621837&err=45092
What's worse, is that I just reboot my machine one day, and it tells me I've got three days to activate due to extreme hardware changes..
Hardware changes? I haven't changed anything in a year or so, and during that I formatted and reinstalled XP anyway...so why is this thing wanting me to activate for a reason that's totally false?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

HOW TO: Activate Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;307890

Select the alternative option to "activate by telephone".

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| When I try to activate Windows online, it tells me that my CD key has been used too many times...so, I try a
new one.
| It gives me an 'incorrectly typed' error every time I retry. I've checked it many many times and tried it
many many times more. It just won't work.
| Something at the bottom says "Message number: 45092"
| And when I click on the "...vistit the Microsoft Activation Assistance Web Site for information..." link,
it sends me to a 404 error.
| The link sends me to... "https://pa.one.microsoft.com/portal.asp?req=55285010090204621837&err=45092"
| What's worse, is that I just reboot my machine one day, and it tells me I've got three days to activate due
to extreme hardware changes...
| Hardware changes? I haven't changed anything in a year or so, and during that I formatted and reinstalled
XP anyway...so why is this thing wanting me to activate for a reason that's totally false?

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
if it's a pirated copy then it may be the cause of such problem.
purchase an additional licence.
regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
You may activate Windows XP over the telephone, you can simply call a
toll-free* number displayed on your screen. A customer service
representative will ask for the installation ID number displayed on the
same screen, enter that number into a secure database, and return a
confirmation ID to you. Once you have typed the confirmation ID, the
activation process is complete.
If it still doesn't help you then you have to buy an additional license.
regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Guest]

Uh, no, it's not pirated
But what could be the cause of this?

 

[kurttrail]

When I try to activate Windows online, it tells me that my CD key has
been used too many times...so, I try a new one.

Well that was the wrong move, what you should have done was take the
phone option to activate. So the first thing you should do is put the
right Product Key back in, then choose the phone activation option.

It gives me an 'incorrectly typed' error every time I retry. I've
checked it many many times and tried it many many times more. It
just won't work.
Something at the bottom says "Message number: 45092"
And when I click on the "...vistit the Microsoft Activation
Assistance Web Site for information..." link, it sends me to a 404
error.
The link sends me to...
"https://pa.one.microsoft.com/portal.asp?req=55285010090204621837&err=45
092"
What's worse, is that I just reboot my machine one day, and it tells
me I've got three days to activate due to extreme hardware changes...
Hardware changes? I haven't changed anything in a year or so, and
during that I formatted and reinstalled XP anyway...so why is this
thing wanting me to activate for a reason that's totally false?

Well that is cause by the wpa.dbl and/or the wpa.bak file getting
corrupted. Figures MS would base PA on their feeble database
technology. The day MS creates a database file that isn't prone to
corruption hell will freeze over and heaven will be the lake of fire.

The best protection from getting screwed by copy-protection is NEVER to
buy or use any product with copy-protection. Copy-protection is an
anti-consumer technology, that the corporate copyright elite is using to
strip individuals of their right to "fair use," and as long a consumers
keep on buying copy-disabled products, the worse that copy-protection
will get for all consumers.

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Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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When I try to activate Windows online, it tells me that my CD key has
been used too many times...so, I try a new one...

No, you don't need a new one. Just call the 800 number you are
given and activate by phone. It's quick, easy, and hassle-free.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Uh, no, it's not pirated.
But what could be the cause of this?

You may have made a lot of changes to hardware so it is not seen as the
same machine. Or you may be trying to type in something where you
should not. Activation on the net does not call for anything to be
typed in, and the key concerned (which will be picked out of the
registry) is the 25 Character Product Key that came with Windows.

If though this is a matter of activating *Office*, and I suspect it may
be, that is a different matter, and it is *Office's* number that is
needed. You can find the right one by going in Word to Help - About
Word, and noting down the number there, Then use it in Word's Help -
Activate Product