XP says u need to activate, but I am

[lister]

Hi all.

Don't know if anybody has had this problem, but when booting up my
laptop PC at the log on screen it says you have so 3 days left to
activate ( I have activated once already when I installed) but when I
go to Ok to activate it comes up with a small screen and says your copy
of XP is all ready activated and only the Ok shows up. I have been to
windows update and am up to date with all files just incase maybe there
was a prob/fix listed.
My pc is a dell and come pre-installed with XP Pro and has a genuine
license stuck on the reverse with 1-2 cpu. The only thing I can think
of is that when I zapped the hard drive a few weeks ago I re-installed
XP from a genuine CD and not the dell restore disks, because when I
bought the Laptop secondhand a few weeks ago i never received the dell
disks..
Any help or advice please if anybody has any idea's.

Thanks in advance

BR
Lister

 

[lister]

Hi all.

Don't know if anybody has had this problem, but when booting up my
laptop PC at the log on screen it says you have so 3 days left to
activate ( I have activated once already when I installed) but when I
go to Ok to activate it comes up with a small screen and says your copy
of XP is all ready activated and only the Ok shows up. I have been to
windows update and am up to date with all files just incase maybe there
was a prob/fix listed.
My pc is a dell and come pre-installed with XP Pro and has a genuine
license stuck on the reverse with 1-2 cpu. The only thing I can think
of is that when I zapped the hard drive a few weeks ago I re-installed
XP from a genuine CD and not the dell restore disks, because when I
bought the Laptop secondhand a few weeks ago i never received the dell
disks..
Any help or advice please if anybody has any idea's.

Thanks in advance

BR
Lister

Well 2 days left to activate, hopefully somebody will have a
solution/Idea !!!

 

[DL]

If you have a genuine XP o/s then you can get direct support from MS

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Well 2 days left to activate, hopefully somebody will have a
solution/Idea !!!

It may be that your activation has become "unregistered." Try
this solution, posted by Carey Frisch, MS-MVP:

Possible Resolution:

Boot into "Safe Mode" by pressing (F8) during a reboot.

Go to Start > Run and type: regsvr32 regwizc.dll , and hit enter.
Then go again to Start > Run and type: regsvr32 licdll.dll , and
hit enter again.



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[Bruce Chambers]

If you have a genuine XP o/s then you can get direct support from MS

The OP clearly said that he had a Dell OEM installation; Microsoft will
not and cannot support OEM installations.

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[John]

Hi all.

Don't know if anybody has had this problem, but when booting up my
laptop PC at the log on screen it says you have so 3 days left to
activate ( I have activated once already when I installed) but when I
go to Ok to activate it comes up with a small screen and says your copy
of XP is all ready activated and only the Ok shows up. I have been to
windows update and am up to date with all files just incase maybe there
was a prob/fix listed.
My pc is a dell and come pre-installed with XP Pro and has a genuine
license stuck on the reverse with 1-2 cpu.

*************
The only thing I can think

of is that when I zapped the hard drive a few weeks ago I re-installed
XP from a genuine CD and not the dell restore disks, because when I
bought the Laptop secondhand a few weeks ago i never received the dell
disks.. ************

Any help or advice please if anybody has any idea's.

Thanks in advance

BR
Lister

You need to use the COA that accompanied the "genuine" CD that you
purchased. Not the COA that is affixed to the bottom of your laptop.
That number is now useless since you didn't get the original CD with the
used laptop. An OEM number (what was supplied when the Dell was
purchased) doesn't work with a full XP CD.

Do the F8 procedure that Bruce suggested to invoke activation and then
use the the COA that accompanied the purchased XP CD when asked for a
registration number. You may have to make a phone call to MS if it
doesn't activate over the net, just explain what happened and there
shouldn't be a problem.

John

 

[DL]

No he actually said, he reinstalled after zapping the hd from a retail
version and not the Dell version

The OP clearly said that he had a Dell OEM installation; Microsoft will
not and cannot support OEM installations.

--

Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrum

Russell