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Cliff said:
I mistakenly let a PC sit too long without activating Windows XP Pro.
The WPA has expired and Windows won't bring up the WPA wizard. It
keeps giving me the following message "This copy of Windows must be
activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Please ask a computer
administrator to activate Windows on this computer". My options for
this message is an "ok" button and the close (x) icon. When i select
either option, I get the "logging off..." screen, followed by the
"saving your settings..." screen, and finally the "loading your
personal settings..." screen before the same message pops up again.
This process repeats itself everytime I reboot. I tried getting to
the WPA wizard from safe mode, but that tells me i can only access
WPA wizard from normal mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Reboot your computer into Safe Mode.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001060608000039
Use the Alternate Method.
Log on to an Administrators account.
Click on the Start Button, and then click on Run, and type:
%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
Press Enter on your Keyboard. If nothing seems to happen, then clear
out what you just typed in the Run line, and type:
regsvr32 licdll.dll
Hit Enter key, then type:
regsvr32 regwizc.dll
Hit Enter again, then retype:
%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
Hit Enter yet again.
Hopefully that should do it, if not then you're sh*t out of luck and
will probably have to reinstall.
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