Product Activation Error Message

[Roy S. Smith]

Hello newsgroup members,

After installing a new program (Napster 2.0) on my
computer, I get this error message upon reboot:

"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer" (error 0X 8009006).

The Microsoft Knowledge Base addresses this error # by
saying it is caused by a hardware change and need to
reinstall Windows but I have had no hardware change.

Is there a way I can fix this without reinstalling Windows
XP? Can the XP recovery disk help? It will not boot up in
safe mode either.

Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

Roy S. Smith

 

[kurttrail]

Hello newsgroup members,

After installing a new program (Napster 2.0) on my
computer, I get this error message upon reboot:

"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer" (error 0X 8009006).

The Microsoft Knowledge Base addresses this error # by
saying it is caused by a hardware change and need to
reinstall Windows but I have had no hardware change.

Is there a way I can fix this without reinstalling Windows
XP? Can the XP recovery disk help? It will not boot up in
safe mode either.

Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

Roy S. Smith

Sorry about your problem, but this should get you to think twice the
next time some company wants to sell you software designed to disable
itself, because eventually it will.

Look at the problems some Symantec users are having with PA in Symantec
products.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113212,00.asp

Why pay big money to companies to develeop software that purposefully
disables itself? Software is buggy enough, without having disabling
code it in that gonna be buggy too!

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Roy,

Try this:

Start/run regsvr32 regwizc.dll
Then start/run regsvr32 licdll.dll

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[kurttrail]

Hi Roy,

Try this:

Start/run regsvr32 regwizc.dll
Then start/run regsvr32 licdll.dll

LOL! Did you even read the post you are replying to?

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Yes, I did, did you?

I'm aware of the Symantec issue you mentioned, however nowhere in the OP's
message was a Norton product mentioned.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[kurttrail]

Yes, I did, did you?

I'm aware of the Symantec issue you mentioned, however nowhere in the
OP's message was a Norton product mentioned.

Then why did you tell him to try to use a start button that the OP can't
access?

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[Michael Stevens]

Hello newsgroup members,

After installing a new program (Napster 2.0) on my
computer, I get this error message upon reboot:

"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer" (error 0X 8009006).

The Microsoft Knowledge Base addresses this error # by
saying it is caused by a hardware change and need to
reinstall Windows but I have had no hardware change.

Is there a way I can fix this without reinstalling Windows
XP? Can the XP recovery disk help? It will not boot up in
safe mode either.

Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

Roy S. Smith

If the recovery disk is one that sets the system back to the original
shipped state, the answer is yes it will get your system working, but unless
it has the provision to selectively restore Windows and leave your other
applications and data settings. etc. intact; it will be like starting over.
Your important data not backed up to other media will be lost.
If you have a real XP CD, you can do a repair install.

Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Ah, now I see what you mean. You're right, I missed that.

For Roy, hit F8 at boot, access the "safe mode with command prompt" option.
Once loaded, hit ctrl+alt+delete and run those lines by clicking on the "new
task" button. Then reboot once more.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Guest]

Hello Rick

Thanks, but when I select "boot into safe mode with
command prompt", it still seems to boot into regular safe
mode ( it loads Windows' drivers) and promps me for my
Windows password, when entered, Windows logs off without
any error message. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought
safe mode with command prompt would appear without any
Windows drivers being loaded like it does in Windows 98.

Roy S. Smith

 

[~ Free Spirit ~]

Hi Roy,

Try this:

Start/run regsvr32 regwizc.dll
Then start/run regsvr32 licdll.dll

==========================
If Roy's PC can't even boot into "safe mode" how is he supposed to click on
Start/run etc.?

FS.....

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

No, it's not like a Win98 system in any sense (command prompt there boots
you into dos, there is no underlying dos layer in WinXP). Have you tried
logging on as administrator yet? It seems to at least get you passed the
error message.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Guest]

Thank you all for the help but I finally gave up and ran a
complete system restore using a Drive Image back-up file
which made a mirror image of my hard drive before Napster
2.0 messed it up. Now it works fine again. I wonder if
anybody else who has installed Napster 2.0 in Windows XP
SP1 has had the same problem? And I would advise anybody
to purchase Drive Image by Power Quest. It is a lifesaver
to get your computer up and running again when nothing
else seems to help.

Thanks again,
Roy S. Smith

 

[kurttrail]

Thank you all for the help but I finally gave up and ran a
complete system restore using a Drive Image back-up file
which made a mirror image of my hard drive before Napster
2.0 messed it up. Now it works fine again. I wonder if
anybody else who has installed Napster 2.0 in Windows XP
SP1 has had the same problem? And I would advise anybody
to purchase Drive Image by Power Quest. It is a lifesaver
to get your computer up and running again when nothing
else seems to help.

Actually, it seems to me, reading about these PA problems over the last
two years, that many of the PA errors like yours seem to have Disk
imaging somewhere in the equation.

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Kurt
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[Brian Wolters]

Hello newsgroup members,

After installing a new program (Napster 2.0) on my
computer, I get this error message upon reboot:

"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking
the license for this computer" (error 0X 8009006).

The Microsoft Knowledge Base addresses this error # by
saying it is caused by a hardware change and need to
reinstall Windows but I have had no hardware change.

Is there a way I can fix this without reinstalling Windows
XP? Can the XP recovery disk help? It will not boot up in
safe mode either.

Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

Roy S. Smith

Napster 2.0 has caused havoc with my Norton Internet Security 2004 and
neither company has offered any good advice.