activation issue

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I reinstalled XP home after a hard drive replacement, and now I get the
"activation required" popup... so I click on it, and it says, windows is
already activated. The countdown has started, what can I do to work around
this?? thanks
 
Reboot your computer into "Safe Mode".
While in Safe Mode, rename the wpa.dbl and wpa.bak files located in the
\Windows\system32 folder.

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.

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| I reinstalled XP home after a hard drive replacement, and now I get the
| "activation required" popup... so I click on it, and it says, windows is
| already activated. The countdown has started, what can I do to work around
| this?? thanks
 
wpa.old
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driver85 said:
ok, I am not too much of a techie.... rename the files to what??
Click to expand...

Oh, "Fred" or "Bob" would do. ;-} It really doesn't matter in the
least what you call them.

The semi-traditional method would be to call them something like
"wpa.old" and "wpa.sav;" but this convention is used merely to ease the
identification of the old files, should there ever be a need to recover
them. There's no underlying technical reason for it.


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