Must re-activate every time I boot up!

[Guest]

For the past month or so I have needed to re-activate XP every time I boot up
my computer. It activates fine both over the internet and on the phone, but
it seems to forget that it's been activated. This problem started a little
while after I installed SP2, but it could be related to installing another
hard drive with another boot record on it around that same time. However,
the new hard drive is gone now (it was scrapped from an old computer, and
froze up) and the problem is still occurring. Does anyone have any idea how
to fix this, short of installing a crack of some sort?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Mitchell;
Reboot to Safe Mode:
Reboot tapping F8 each second.
Select Safe Mode at the menu

Start/Run
Type "regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll" ENTER
Type "regsvr32.exe licdll.dll" ENTER

Reboot.
Activate again
Reboot

If you are still having the problem after a reboot, perform a Repair
Installation:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm