Activating Microsoft

[Guest]

Upon starting up windows XP (after typing in my password in the login screen)
I get the following message;
'This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log
on. Do you want to activate Windows now?' Yes/No
Obviously this problem has been highlighted before, but when I press Yes I'm
taken to what I believe is the activation screen, but it's just a blank white
screen. I can't do anything but close the screen which logs me back out. What
can I do?
Any ideas?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Try the following:

1. Reboot your computer into "Safe Mode".
2. Go to Start > Run and type: %systemroot%\system32
then press the Enter key.
3. Locate these two files: wpa.dbl and wpa.bak
4. Rename the wpa.dbl file to wpaold.dbl and wpa.bak to wpaold.bak
5. Reboot your computer into Normal mode.

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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| Upon starting up windows XP (after typing in my password in the login screen)
| I get the following message;
| 'This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log
| on. Do you want to activate Windows now?' Yes/No
| Obviously this problem has been highlighted before, but when I press Yes I'm
| taken to what I believe is the activation screen, but it's just a blank white
| screen. I can't do anything but close the screen which logs me back out. What
| can I do?
| Any ideas?