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[Guest]

I have a Acer Aspire 5000 (64 bit) $notebook with Win XP home on it. I tried
to install Win XP Professional. This is a academic license.
The installation completes but at the login screen I get the following error
"A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
this computer. ERROR 0x80004005"
This is some kind of a known issue with Win XP Professional upgrades. a
search will show that even Dell systems experienced it. I dont have a problem
activating the product but I can never login.

I tried registering the DLLs and also removing wpa files from
:\WINDOWS\System32 folders as suggested by other users. Doesnt seem to work.
This is definitely not a hardware problem as Acer aspire systems also come
with XP professional. If you have any ideas feel free to post.

Thanks
-Raja

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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| I have a Acer Aspire 5000 (64 bit) $notebook with Win XP home on it. I tried
| to install Win XP Professional. This is a academic license.
| The installation completes but at the login screen I get the following error
| "A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
| this computer. ERROR 0x80004005"
| This is some kind of a known issue with Win XP Professional upgrades. a
| search will show that even Dell systems experienced it. I dont have a problem
| activating the product but I can never login.
|
| I tried registering the DLLs and also removing wpa files from
| :\WINDOWS\System32 folders as suggested by other users. Doesnt seem to work.
| This is definitely not a hardware problem as Acer aspire systems also come
| with XP professional. If you have any ideas feel free to post.
|
| Thanks
| -Raja

 

[Guest]

Carey,

Thanks for the reply. After a repair install I still get the same problem.

After a number of trials I found out that this error comes even when I start
up safe Mode with networking. However I dont see the error when I start up
just in safe mode.

This seems like a problem in the windows product activation process. can
anyone shed some light as to what goes on during the login process. I am not
trying to circumvent the product activation. I want to delay it for later.
Once the system starts up with Networking I will be more than happy to
register the new windows instalation.

Thanks
Raja

 

[banerjee.raja]

This turned out to be a problem with the installation CD. Over the
weekend I copied over all
dlls from another XP Professional installation.
Fortunately I had set up my laptop as multibooting XP home and XP Pro.
Burnt a CD with the entire C:\WINDOWS folder and copied it to my
laptop.
Wrote a batch script to run regsvr32 on all the DLLs. Some of them
gave errors. At the end
XP pro started to work.

I cannot certainly say which file was missing. It looks like during the
installation process
Win XP did not expand some DLLs. DId not raise an alert either.

Hope this helps others trying to resolve the same error.

-Raja