Upgrade to SP 3 get Windows Product Activation error

[Bill]

Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now cant sign
in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
"a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
this computer code 0x80090006"
Any suggestions?

 

[JS]

"Error Code: 0x80070002" error message cites license-checking issue after
upgrade on Dell computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q310794

JS

 

[JS]

This was the only thing I could find, even thought it's not an exact match.

JS

 

[Bill]

This is a store built mini desktop.

"Error Code: 0x80070002" error message cites license-checking issue after
upgrade on Dell computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q310794

JS

 

[Bill]

This is a store built shuttle machine. 500g hd, 1 g ram p4 2.8 proc.been
running fine on sp2 since released

 

[Daave]

Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now
cant sign
in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
"a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license
for
this computer code 0x80090006"
Any suggestions?

For the time being, I would uninstall SP3 and use System Restore (going
back to a date just prior to SP3) for good measure.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for
Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and
e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.

• US:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• CA:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-ca&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• UK:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-gb&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• AU:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11273&gprid=522131

• Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=1173 | select
Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3

 

[Sanford Aranoff]

Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for
Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and
e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.

I have XP Pro, SP2. Any point to upgrading to SP3, when
support will be available only till 4/09? Why upgrade in
view of all the problems some have with SP3?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have XP Pro, SP2. Any point to upgrading to SP3, when
support will be available only till 4/09? Why upgrade in
view of all the problems some have with SP3?

Whenever everything new comes out, there are always some people with
problems. But in fact, the enormous majority of those who have
upgraded to SP3 have had no problems at all with it,

If you're reading about problems *here*, this where people come with
their problems, not with their successes. You get a very distorted
view of what's going on in the real world here; as someone once said,
"hang around a transmission shop and you will think that all cars have
transmission problems."

Most problems, by far, that people report here--whether or not they
are SP3-related--have nothing to do with defects in the software. They
result from people's ignorance, from bad or inadequate hardware, from
old drivers, from viruses, from spyware, and so on. And except for
very rare situations, they always get a fix for their problems, and in
most cases, that fix is a very simple one to implement.

But read here first: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

I have XP Pro, SP2. Any point to upgrading to SP3, when
support will be available only till 4/09? Why upgrade in
view of all the problems some have with SP3?

In the future, please begin a new thread about your questions/problems.

Repost with emphasis added:
WinXP SP3 will be supported into 2014. Support for WinXP SP2 will end in
2010.

The vast majority of WinXP users have installed SP3 without any issues
whatsoever. Such users tend NOT to post to the newsgroups and forums to
report such successes.