PC unusable after XP re-activation

[Guest]

I selected diagnostic startup in msconfig. restarted and then win xp home
wanted to reactivate due to "harware changes". I tried to reactivate but
didnt work. Eventually managed over the phone as wireless connection wasnt
working.

Now device manager doesnt show anything, the taskbar is white, all my
restore points are gone, network connections deleted and most programs arent
working correctly.

Got the aproposfix and blbeta from MS support phone but didnt help.

What can i do other than buy an upgrade XP home? (I am using oem, but have
access to parents xp home CD)

Can i repair install with their CD?

please help... i cant afford £90 just to make my legal copy of xp work

 

[kurttrail]

I selected diagnostic startup in msconfig. restarted and then win xp
home wanted to reactivate due to "harware changes". I tried to
reactivate but didnt work. Eventually managed over the phone as
wireless connection wasnt working.

Now device manager doesnt show anything, the taskbar is white, all my
restore points are gone, network connections deleted and most
programs arent working correctly.

Got the aproposfix and blbeta from MS support phone but didnt help.

What can i do other than buy an upgrade XP home? (I am using oem, but
have access to parents xp home CD)

Can i repair install with their CD?

please help... i cant afford £90 just to make my legal copy of xp work

If your parents CD is an OEM CD, maybe. With as much going wrong as you
say, then the first thing you'd want to do is back up EVERYTHING that
you don't want to lose on some sort of removable media. You should have
gotten some way to restore your orginal install from your OEM, and you
may have to go that route. DO NOT PURCHASE another copy of XP, and
after you get yourself up and running, remember! Remember how a greedy
monopoly screwed you out of your time and gave you this problem, all
because of their insatiable greed.

Copy-protection doesn't stop or even put a real dent into piracy! It is
an anti-comsumer technology that really ONLY screws the paying customer!

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"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Guest]

everything is backed up. I dont want to go trying to repair windows with my
parents cd and then find it doesnt work, buy an upgrade and then find that it
wont "upgrade" due to activation or product key or anything else it might
want to find wrong.

their cd is pre SP2 and i have SP2. will the cd repair my installation?

 

[Guest]

cant find an edit option. anyhoo, i realised that all the services had been
disabled... duh, should have check that to start with... schoolboy error on
my part.

Things are working now, but very slowly, i need to disable ones i dont need.
Anyone know or got a link about which servies i can set to
manual/automatic/disable without breaking it again?

if anyone might know why the activation didnt re-enable the services i am
quite interested to know. (so it never happens again hopefully)

thanks

 

[Alias]

everything is backed up. I dont want to go trying to repair windows with my
parents cd and then find it doesnt work, buy an upgrade and then find that it
wont "upgrade" due to activation or product key or anything else it might
want to find wrong.

their cd is pre SP2 and i have SP2. will the cd repair my installation?

No. Sounds like you should use the restore disk and clean install.

Alias

 

[kurttrail]

everything is backed up. I dont want to go trying to repair windows
with my parents cd and then find it doesnt work, buy an upgrade and
then find that it wont "upgrade" due to activation or product key or
anything else it might want to find wrong.

their cd is pre SP2 and i have SP2. will the cd repair my
installation?

At this point you probably have a 50/50 chance of have to restore from
scratch, but I wouldn't pay MS a dime. Take your parents CD and use it
to create a Slipstreamed copy of of XP SP2, but ONLY if your parents CD
is an OEM version, if not, then starting from scratch is you best
option.

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

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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"