WINDOWS ACTIVATION

[Guest]

I recently had my harddrive replaced and when I activated Windows XP Home
SP2, the activation went ok. After a week or so I started receiving warnings
that I had only 30 days to Activate. This message kept coming up until the 30
days were over and I called MS's activation line to reactivate. Only problem
is that everytime I reboot, Activation message comes up and I have to reenter
code. Real pain. I spoke further with MS, spoke with Compaq, since it was
their notebook and even purchased an upgrade to avoid having to do a complete
reload from scratch, but same "activation message" comes up during every
reboot.

Any suggestions???

 

[BurrWalnut]

Try repairing the registry entries for the .DLL files used by
activation.

Start, Run and type regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll (notice the space). Then
do it again with regsvr32.exe licdll.dll (again, notice the space)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Possible Resolution:

Boot into "Safe Mode" by pressing (F8) during a reboot.

Go to Start > Run and type: regsvr32 regwizc.dll , and hit enter.
Then go again to Start > Run and type: regsvr32 licdll.dll , and hit enter again.

Apparently, and I can't say how, the above files became unregistered.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| I recently had my harddrive replaced and when I activated Windows XP Home
| SP2, the activation went ok. After a week or so I started receiving warnings
| that I had only 30 days to Activate. This message kept coming up until the 30
| days were over and I called MS's activation line to reactivate. Only problem
| is that everytime I reboot, Activation message comes up and I have to reenter
| code. Real pain. I spoke further with MS, spoke with Compaq, since it was
| their notebook and even purchased an upgrade to avoid having to do a complete
| reload from scratch, but same "activation message" comes up during every
| reboot.
|
| Any suggestions???

 

[Guest]

Thanks for feedback.

I have tried as you suggested and per other messages about similar problem,
but did not solve.

Would my firewall software (AOL Privacy Wall hru McAfee) or virus protection
software (McAfee), prevent input to registry?

 

[D.Currie]

No, but a "permissions" problem could prevent you from writing to the
registry.

 

[BurrWalnut]

After you have activated it, copy C:\Windows\System32\WPA.DBL to, say
My Docs. Before activation WPA.DBL is about 2Kb, after it should b
about 14Kb.

If it is 14Kb in size then try the reregistering of the 2 DLL files


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BurrWalnu