Can't Activate Windows

[Guest]

Hello,

When i try to activate Vista Beta 2 i receive the following error in the
Event Log :

Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC
Date: 01/06/2006 08:44:33
Event ID: 1010
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: JXXXXX
Description:
Acquisition of Rights Account Certificate failed. hr=0x8007000D

Any clue ?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Login as an administrator, or *the* administrator:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/security/localadminlogin

Looks like a permissions thing from the error report.

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[Guest]

Zack,

Thanks a lot for the reply.

I have admin right on the computer but it fail. I try the trick on your
execellent site to logon as THE adminitrator, but i don't was able to switch
to this user

Any other clue ?

Thanks alot for your help.

Regards

 

[Josh]

Jeff the problem is that Zach's Vista base is out of date. With the newer
build Microsoft is also diableing the built in administrator account as
well. So until you go into compmgmt.msc and enable the account you will not
be able to log on as the local administrator account.

As for the activation i know for a long time the activation server were
being hammered due to all the requests...so might be worth just retrying.

josh
http://windowsconnected.com

 

[Jeff]

Ok so now i m able to login as "The" Administrator (Thanks josh) but i still
have the same issue.

I contact MSDN in france who say that Beta 2 cannot be activated as it's a
trial version....

What will happen in 11 days when the activation grace will expire ?

Any other clue ?

 

[Zack Whittaker]

How is it out of date? I've managed to run the administrator using that
article in Beta 2 :-s

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[Naseru]

MSDN France is smoking some illegal substances (figure of speech, of
course).

I am running an MSDN version of Vista Beta 2 and I only activated it 3-4
days after the original installation date. --> So, yes, the MSDN versions
do require activation as well.

As for getting it to properly activate: was it a clean install? was it on a
clean partition? were there major hardware adjustments/changes between
installation date/time and activation attempts?

Submitting a bug report (following Andre's advice in this thread) would be
the last option... or re-installing Vista Beta 2 again on a
clean/reformatted partition.

- naseru

 

[Gabriel Lozano-Morán]

If you look at the details you will notice a time discrepancy of exactly two
hours between the creation of the event and the datetime in the schema. My
guess is that this is the problem.

Gabriel Lozano-Morán
The .NET Aficionado
http://www.pointerx.net

 

[Jeff]

Hello All

Yes it was a clean istall. No Hardware changes.

I try changing time and loctaion, I try with another product key but without
any sucess.

How can i report bug ?
Because the link provided are more feeback than bug reporting.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards

 

[Gabriel Lozano-Morán]

Have you tried changing the timezones back to and trying to reactivate? I am
just curious where the 2 hour difference comes from.

Gabriel

 

[Laszlo Dobos]

hi friend

the phone activation work fine, use it!

 

[Cary Moore]

Try uninstalling daemon tools if you have it installed, I got this
error until dt was uninstalled - and don't reinstall it after
activation otherwise vista is not activated again!!!

 

[Jeff]

It works now. Thanks a lot for the tips.

Best Regards

 

[Guest]

Hi.

I can confirm this.
I had the samme issue untill i removed daemon-tools and then,
"BOOM", Windows has been activated.

There are probably more stuff that creates this issue, but D-T was the
problem for me.

 

[Guest]

Hi.

I can confirm this.
I had the samme issue untill i removed daemon-tools and then,
"BOOM", Windows has been activated.

There are probably more stuff that creates this issue, but D-T was the
problem for me.

 

[Guest]

Uninstalling Daemon Tools might fix the problem but for me that is not an
option is there any other way to fix it

 

[Cary Moore]

Unless there's something specific you need in DT, MagicISO Virtual
CD/DVD-ROM works for me.....

http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm