Activation

[Guest]

#1 I have been playing around with a program called Style XP which let's you
swich windows themes, styles, icons and boot screens.

#2 Been useing IE 7 beta (which I uninstalled).

Problem: All of a sudden I have to re activate Windows because of to many
hardware changes? There has been no hardware changes, just programs.

I like to experment with differant kind's of programs that are around and
never had this trouble. Every once in a while I do have to reinstall Windows
where I something get's messed up, so you have to reactivate. This is
understandable
but Microsoft only lets you do this so many times until you must call them
up for a new activation code. I had to do this one time and it makes you
fill like Microsoft thinks your installing XP on a hundred computers.
There is a glitch in the activation program that that is counting some of
the visual changes from Style XP or some of the hardware driver updates that
I keep up on. The activation notice came after I changed a desktop theme. I
don't want to use up all of my on line activations just by changing the way
the desktop look's.
Any Comments>

 

[Guest]

Possible solution:

Boot into "Safe Mode" by pressing F8 during the boot cycle.

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.

Apparently, the above files became unregistered due to malware
or registry corruption.

 

[Leythos]

#1 I have been playing around with a program called Style XP which let's you
swich windows themes, styles, icons and boot screens.

#2 Been useing IE 7 beta (which I uninstalled).

Problem: All of a sudden I have to re activate Windows because of to many
hardware changes? There has been no hardware changes, just programs.

I like to experment with differant kind's of programs that are around and
never had this trouble. Every once in a while I do have to reinstall Windows
where I something get's messed up, so you have to reactivate. This is
understandable
but Microsoft only lets you do this so many times until you must call them
up for a new activation code. I had to do this one time and it makes you
fill like Microsoft thinks your installing XP on a hundred computers.
There is a glitch in the activation program that that is counting some of
the visual changes from Style XP or some of the hardware driver updates that
I keep up on. The activation notice came after I changed a desktop theme. I
don't want to use up all of my on line activations just by changing the way
the desktop look's.
Any Comments>

On the 1500+ systems I have, I've never had to "reactivate" any of them
while using them normally. I've seen others have issues with Malware and
crappy programs that caused damage to the activation system, but I've
never seen it on a computer without malware.

 

[kurttrail]

On the 1500+ systems I have, I've never had to "reactivate" any of
them while using them normally. I've seen others have issues with
Malware and crappy programs that caused damage to the activation
system, but I've never seen it on a computer without malware.

I have. So have many other people.

Oh and how many of the 1500+ PCs used VL media, or were BIOS-Locked?

My guess would be the vast majority of the PCs you saw had PA disabled
in one or the other of those manners.

--
Peace!
Kurt
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"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[kurttrail]

On the 1500+ systems I have, I've never had to "reactivate" any of
them while using them normally. I've seen others have issues with
Malware and crappy programs that caused damage to the activation
system, but I've never seen it on a computer without malware.

I have. So have many other people.

Oh and how many of the 1500+ PCs used VL media, or were BIOS-Locked?

My guess would be the vast majority of the PCs you saw had PA disabled
in one or the other of those manners.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity/index.php?showtopic=3
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Leythos]

I have. So have many other people.

Oh and how many of the 1500+ PCs used VL media, or were BIOS-Locked?

My guess would be the vast majority of the PCs you saw had PA disabled
in one or the other of those manners.

Nope, the only VL software we have on them is for MS Office 2003, and
that's only about 300 of them. Most all of them are OEM XP + SP2 and
Office 2003 SBE / Prof OEM, and all of them passed PA and WGA.

Want to try again?

 

[kurttrail]

Nope, the only VL software we have on them is for MS Office 2003, and
that's only about 300 of them. Most all of them are OEM XP + SP2 and
Office 2003 SBE / Prof OEM, and all of them passed PA and WGA.

Want to try again?

Then you are just lying. Too many people have experienced PA problems,
where drivers and BIOS changes trigger activation when it is only
supposed be triggered by hardware changes.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Alias]

On the 1500+ systems I have, I've never had to "reactivate" any of them
while using them normally.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Alias

 

[Leythos]

Then you are just lying. Too many people have experienced PA problems,
where drivers and BIOS changes trigger activation when it is only
supposed be triggered by hardware changes.

No, no lies, no mistakes, I stated the facts that I've seen.

What part of updating the BIOS did you mention before this last post -
BIOS locked does not mean BIOS Changes. As an example, if I update the
firmware (BIOS) with changes that cause the identification of the
subsystems to appear different, depending on how many differences, I may
be asked to re-activate, and it's never failed by web/phone yet.

Now, lets take what I said and what you tried to play the word game
with: I specifically said:

You said:

And I said:

Notice no mention of BIOS Updates or Firmware changes in any part of
your posting or mine.

But, since you bring it up, I've updated firmware on SCSI Cards,
Motherboard Chipsets, video cards, and in all that time, after many
hundreds of updates, I've been required to re-activate a grand total of
7 times, and each time it worked just fine. Oh, and WGA worked fine
after that too.

 

[Leythos]

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

I see that you don't have a lot of experience with Windows XP systems.
Maybe when you get out in the world, where you have exposure to many
systems in many operations, you might actually learn how little PA
impacts customers/businesses.

 

[Alias]

I see that you don't have a lot of experience with Windows XP systems.
Maybe when you get out in the world, where you have exposure to many
systems in many operations, you might actually learn how little PA
impacts customers/businesses.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

I don't believe you, Leythos.

Alias

 

[Leythos]

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

I don't believe you, Leythos.

Your loss then - there are many people that have more clients that we do
that have the same experience as I do.

 

[Guest]

Hey Alias give styleXP a try especally changing the boot screen and then you
can tell me yeal riggggggggght.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Carey,
I can see that you have some brains and some common sence not like the other
person that responded to my question. Wow can you believe he loaded 1500
computers with windows and does some updates, gee he must be a genius. Now
if he could learn what he could do with the computer's (besides chat rooms)
he would be deadly. Sorry this has been a bad day. I uninstalled StyleXp,
the trial was almost up anyway. The program gave warnings about changing
Boot Screens and a couple of other things but all in all it was a pretty good
program. The first thing that happened when I tried to use a new boot
screen was when the pc was restarted it messed up the profiles and wanted to
know which one to load. I took care of the profile issue, but download and
playing around with new Icons and theams it just happened on a startup about
reactivation. Over the years I've seen just about everything but this one
stumped me. I had a defective MSI motherboard which drove me and the tech
dept. crazy where I bought my parts from. It took over a year to figure out
it was the motherboard acting up every once and a while causing me to reload
windows, and after so many reinstalls I had to call Microsoft to get windows
reactivated. And they were real nice about it. I hope this answers his
question also. Again thanks Carey for the nice responce. "Carey Frisch