No activation screen

[Guest]

I have had my computer for over a year now, so, my windows has been up and
running, regiestered and legal.... I have done a 'full recovery' before, and
it worked beutifully, restored my computer to its original state, more or
less, cleaned everything out....was working fine.... however, recently, I
kept getting a message about a currupt windows file.... sooooo.....because I
did not want to lose the data I now have, I did a 'safe recovery'...... (ya,
ya, should have done a back up - put my trust in microsoft tho)......
anyway.... now when I start my computer.... it boots up like normal, gets to
the user account screen (I have two user accounts, both are adminstrator
status).... doesn't matter which one I click on it says "windows must be
activtated... do you want to activate now".... I click Yes, it goes into the
account, but, that's it.... all I see is blue sky and a green field (my
screensaver).... nothing else.... no icons, no start bar... nothing... blue
sky and field.. that's all.... from here it goes nowhere... have to push the
restart on the computer to get it to reboot.....

I have tried calling microsofts help and support.... you get somewhere in
New Dhelli, India.. you can't understand half the things they are saying...
it's static... and I got cut off several times... each time having to call
back .. and go thru the whole thing over (and over) again... explaining the
situtation... transferred back and forth from activation to technical....
very very frustrating.... in the end I got cut off again, and gave up....

So far, nobody has been able to tell me how I can activate windows when you
can't get the activation screen to come up...... can't be done in safe
mode... which is another beef of mine,.... why have a diagnostice mode, if
you can't do diagnostics... grrrrrrr.... very frustrating.....

I did get a hold of one person that actually spoke english... and she said
pay $36 for tech help..... Why should I have to pay 36 bucks to activate
windows... very very frustrated...... grrrrrrrrrr.....
hope SOMEONE can help.....

 

[T. Waters]

I have had my computer for over a year now, so, my windows has been
up and running, regiestered and legal.... I have done a 'full
recovery' before, and it worked beutifully, restored my computer to
its original state, more or less, cleaned everything out....was
working fine.... however, recently, I kept getting a message about a
currupt windows file.... sooooo.....because I did not want to lose
the data I now have, I did a 'safe recovery'...... (ya, ya, should
have done a back up - put my trust in microsoft tho)...... anyway....
now when I start my computer.... it boots up like normal, gets to the
user account screen (I have two user accounts, both are adminstrator
status).... doesn't matter which one I click on it says "windows must
be activtated... do you want to activate now".... I click Yes, it
goes into the account, but, that's it.... all I see is blue sky and a
green field (my screensaver).... nothing else.... no icons, no start
bar... nothing... blue sky and field.. that's all.... from here it
goes nowhere... have to push the restart on the computer to get it to
reboot.....

I have tried calling microsofts help and support.... you get
somewhere in New Dhelli, India.. you can't understand half the
things they are saying... it's static... and I got cut off several
times... each time having to call back .. and go thru the whole thing
over (and over) again... explaining the situtation... transferred
back and forth from activation to technical.... very very
frustrating.... in the end I got cut off again, and gave up....

So far, nobody has been able to tell me how I can activate windows
when you can't get the activation screen to come up...... can't be
done in safe mode... which is another beef of mine,.... why have a
diagnostice mode, if you can't do diagnostics... grrrrrrr.... very
frustrating.....

I did get a hold of one person that actually spoke english... and she
said pay $36 for tech help..... Why should I have to pay 36 bucks to
activate windows... very very frustrated...... grrrrrrrrrr.....
hope SOMEONE can help....

What brand of computer do you have?
From your post, it seems as though you have an OEM recovery disk or
partition for XP. Is that the case?
When you first got your computer, did it require activation?

 

[Ron Martell]

I have had my computer for over a year now, so, my windows has been up and
running, regiestered and legal.... I have done a 'full recovery' before, and
it worked beutifully, restored my computer to its original state, more or
less, cleaned everything out....was working fine.... however, recently, I
kept getting a message about a currupt windows file.... sooooo.....because I
did not want to lose the data I now have, I did a 'safe recovery'...... (ya,
ya, should have done a back up - put my trust in microsoft tho)......
anyway.... now when I start my computer.... it boots up like normal, gets to
the user account screen (I have two user accounts, both are adminstrator
status).... doesn't matter which one I click on it says "windows must be
activtated... do you want to activate now".... I click Yes, it goes into the
account, but, that's it.... all I see is blue sky and a green field (my
screensaver).... nothing else.... no icons, no start bar... nothing... blue
sky and field.. that's all.... from here it goes nowhere... have to push the
restart on the computer to get it to reboot.....

I have tried calling microsofts help and support.... you get somewhere in
New Dhelli, India.. you can't understand half the things they are saying...
it's static... and I got cut off several times... each time having to call
back .. and go thru the whole thing over (and over) again... explaining the
situtation... transferred back and forth from activation to technical....
very very frustrating.... in the end I got cut off again, and gave up....

So far, nobody has been able to tell me how I can activate windows when you
can't get the activation screen to come up...... can't be done in safe
mode... which is another beef of mine,.... why have a diagnostice mode, if
you can't do diagnostics... grrrrrrr.... very frustrating.....

I did get a hold of one person that actually spoke english... and she said
pay $36 for tech help..... Why should I have to pay 36 bucks to activate
windows... very very frustrated...... grrrrrrrrrr.....
hope SOMEONE can help.....

Can you boot into Windows XP at all? How about booting into Safe Mode
- does that work?

If you can get the machine to boot at all, even in Safe Mode, then try
repairing the registry entries for the .DLL files used by activation.


Use Start- Run and enter the following text in the dialog box:
regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll

Then do it again with the following text:
regsvr32.exe licdll.dll

Launch activation manually:
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /A

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm