can't reactivate XP home

[bof]

After XP recovered from a 'serious hardware problem' and removing and
reseating a couple of boards in my PC, XP home now comes up with a
message along the lines of 'your hardware has changed significantly
since install, you need to reactivate', this is even though the hardware
is the same, and in the same slots, though a couple of years back I did
add a second HD and extra RAM..

Anyhow the problem is that when I click "OK to reactivate" at boot, or
'click here' on the "you have 3 days left to reactivate" balloon,
nothing happens, no error message, no confirmation, the message box just
goes away to reappear next time I boot. I've now tried about six of
seven times, no joy.

Any advice on how to proceed?

MTIA

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[JoeM]

I think you will have to activate by phone.

 

[bof]

I think you will have to activate by phone.

Thanks, anyone know the UK phone number?

 

[kurttrail]

Thanks, anyone know the UK phone number?

Boot into safe mode, and run the activation wizard, and choose the phone
option. The wizard will give you the number.

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[Richard Urban]

Happy Holidays Kurt,

Not yourself today? You actually assisted someone with an ACTIVATION problem
(-:

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[bof]

Boot into safe mode, and run the activation wizard, and choose the phone
option. The wizard will give you the number.

Thanks for that, unfortunately no joy, never saw a phone option:

running "regwiz" gives:

"The Registration Wizard cannot run because the system information it
requires is either unavailable or incorrect"

Then tried "regwiz /r" as suggested in XP help which results in: a box
that flashes up too fast to read, then a message saying the registration
was unsuccessful because of no connection.

The PC seems fine booting normally, other than the warnings about having
to reactivate XP.

Now two days left, any other ideas, as ever, MTIA.

So if I run out of time before fixing the problem does XP just stop
working?

 

[kurttrail]

Thanks for that, unfortunately no joy, never saw a phone option:

running "regwiz" gives:

"The Registration Wizard cannot run because the system information it
requires is either unavailable or incorrect"

Then tried "regwiz /r" as suggested in XP help which results in: a box
that flashes up too fast to read, then a message saying the
registration was unsuccessful because of no connection.

The PC seems fine booting normally, other than the warnings about
having to reactivate XP.

Now two days left, any other ideas, as ever, MTIA.

So if I run out of time before fixing the problem does XP just stop
working?

Click Start > Run and type in: "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe
/a" without the quotes
Click Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to
activate Windows, and then click Next . . . .

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[bof]

Click Start > Run and type in: "%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe
/a" without the quotes
Click Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to
activate Windows, and then click Next . . . .

Thanks, already tried that, I get the message "....msoobe.exe" can't be
found, so did a search of the HD for "msoobe.exe" and found a copy
stored elsewhere, I ran that and nothing happened, no error, no message,
no nothing :-(

 

[kurttrail]

Thanks, already tried that, I get the message "....msoobe.exe" can't
be found, so did a search of the HD for "msoobe.exe" and found a copy
stored elsewhere, I ran that and nothing happened, no error, no
message, no nothing :-(

Start > Run > type: sfc /scannow Reboot. Try to run msoobe again.
Still not working, do repair install.


http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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[bof]

Start > Run > type: sfc /scannow Reboot. Try to run msoobe again.
Still not working, do repair install.


http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

OK thanks, I'll give it a go in the morning.

 

[bof]

Start > Run > type: sfc /scannow Reboot. Try to run msoobe again.
Still not working, do repair install.


http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Many thanks, I am now fixed, touch wood, after doing a repair install.

For the benefit of anyone reading this in the archives be aware of this
problem that affects repairs to XP installs with WMP10
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;889288>