Keep being asked to validate Windows XP

[Paul.A.Bowden]

Recently, and suddenly, I have been asked, at logon, to validate my
copy of winXP and told that I have 3 days to do this. On the past two
occasions - one today and on yesterday - I clicked on the 'Let's
validate by internet' prompt and received the message that my copy had
been successfully validated. And yet, lo and behold, I received the
message yet again just now.
I would be grateful for any advice on (a) what might have caused this
(I have not knowlingly made any changes) and, more importantly, (b) how
I can stop this continuing to happen and yet be sure of being able to
use Windows XP without problem in the future.
I am very non-technical, I am afraid, so please let me know if I should
give further information or if there's something very simple I should
know about.
With thanks and best wishes to anyone who takes the time to read this;
direct email replies especially gratefully received.
Paul Bowden

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Paul,

Validate or Activate? I suspect the latter. See:
http://www.rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Activation

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[kurttrail]

Recently, and suddenly, I have been asked, at logon, to validate my
copy of winXP and told that I have 3 days to do this.

Sounds like you are talking about ACTIVATION, not VALIDATION.

On the past two
occasions - one today and on yesterday - I clicked on the 'Let's
validate by internet' prompt and received the message that my copy had
been successfully validated. And yet, lo and behold, I received the
message yet again just now.
I would be grateful for any advice on (a) what might have caused this
(I have not knowlingly made any changes) and, more importantly, (b)
how I can stop this continuing to happen and yet be sure of being
able to use Windows XP without problem in the future.
I am very non-technical, I am afraid, so please let me know if I
should give further information or if there's something very simple I
should know about.
With thanks and best wishes to anyone who takes the time to read this;
direct email replies especially gratefully received.
Paul Bowden

Sounds like you are a victim of MS's flawed Activation scheme. The best
way to avoid being screwed by copy-protection, is NEVER to use any
product that uses copy-protection. ALL copy-protection is susceptible
to failure, and it is the paying customer is the one that gets screwed.

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

 

[Paul.A.Bowden]

You're absolutely right! Sorry (as you can see from preceding post, we
have another household computer problem and it's all getting a bit
irritating here!) Just about to leave for work. Will do what your
link page suggests when I come home, but wanted to thank you for your
time and advice.
Paul Bowden