Activation Problem after Update

[Guest]

Installed XP Home 2 years ago, no problems. Just received 10 automatic
updates, now when XP Home starts (and before login), message appears to
activate within 7 days. However, when I select "yes to activate", replies
"Already Activated".

I see where people's systems lock up and prevent them from doing anything
because their activation period ends. Is my system going to freeze and
prevent me from doing anything? How do I reset the activation and clear this
problem?

I see where there are hundreds, probably thousands of problems people have.
Maybe with the BILLIONS of dollars microsoft makes, they can fix their stuff
to work right. Regular people shouldn't have to take a junior college class
to have a simple home computer system and have to dig in the internal guts of
their XP product to keep it running !!!

 

[Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]]

Try http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag (from
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916247/, Windows Genuine Advantage does not
validate a copy of Windows XP). This may help you determine what the
problem is.

 

[Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]]

Another possible help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924166/en-us
Error message when you run the Windows Genuine Advantage validation check
process: "Windows Activation Required"

Fix: To resolve this problem, remove the read-only attribute of the Wpa.dbl
file. To do this, click Start, click Run, type attrib -r
%windir%\system32\wpa.dbl, and then click OK.

 

[Guest]

that's what I figured. More links, that don't fix anything, only take you
back to the same problem.

But we fixed the problem, a neighborhood kid did it. The same kid we called
on 2 yrs ago when we simply added a hard drive to the system and had to go
through all of this before.

I have an idea. Let's scrap the forums and recruit neighborhood kids.