Windows must be re-activated ??

[Martin ©¿©¬]

Hi
This last few days, when my pc boots up i get the following message
"Since windows was first activated the hardware on this computer has
changed. Due to these changes windows must be re-activated"

The first couple of times i followed the prompts and re-activated
But this message pops up each time the 'puter starts
Anyone who why
There have been no hard ware changes
Just up-dated Nero

Running XP home
Martin
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[José Gallardo]

Try a recovery:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm

 

[Malke]

Try a recovery:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm

I'm not sure why you suggested that the OP do a recovery. Martin, here
are some steps to try:

(credit and thanks to Rick Rogers)

"Click start/run, type "regsvr32 regwizc.dll" (without the quotes) and
click "ok". Then do the same for "regsvr32 licdll.dll". You should get
a successful message for both and it should resolve the error message.
If not, then try these steps:

Start the computer in Safe mode by hitting F8 at startup. Click
start/run, type regedit and click ok. Expand the branches in the left
pane by clicking the plus (+) signs to reach these keys:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers

Click on the folder representing each key and delete them one at a time.
You may want to create a backup before doing so by clicking file/export
and saving a copy to the desktop. If there is a problem after deleting,
you can put the key back by double-clicking it. If there is no problem,
you can delete the key later. When finished, restart the system
normally after closing the registry editor.

Note: If you used reset5 to crack the Windows XP installation
previously, the above steps will not work."

Malke

 

[kurttrail]

Hi
This last few days, when my pc boots up i get the following message
"Since windows was first activated the hardware on this computer has
changed. Due to these changes windows must be re-activated"

The first couple of times i followed the prompts and re-activated
But this message pops up each time the 'puter starts
Anyone who why
There have been no hard ware changes
Just up-dated Nero

Running XP home
Martin
©¿©¬

Unfortunately PA doesn't always work as it is supposed to, and MS
doesn't really care that that their paying customers have problems with
it.

If Malke suggestion doesn't work, then try deleting the wpa.dbl and the
wpa.old files while in safe mofe, and then click on Start > Run and type
in:

chkdsk /r

How to boot into Safe Mode:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#12

Then if all else fails, do a repair install.


http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[José Gallardo]

Sometimes a recovery fixes some activation issues.

 

[Martin ©¿©¬]

Unfortunately PA doesn't always work as it is supposed to, and MS
doesn't really care that that their paying customers have problems with
it.
If Malke suggestion doesn't work, then try deleting the wpa.dbl and the
wpa.old files while in safe mofe, and then click on Start > Run and type
in: chkdsk /r
How to boot into Safe Mode:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#12
Then if all else fails, do a repair install.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Hi kurttrail
Malke's suggestion didn't work and neither did deleting the wpa.dbl
and the wpa.old files. So I'll try a repair install

Martin
©¿©¬

 

[Martin ©¿©¬]

I'm not sure why you suggested that the OP do a recovery. Martin, here
are some steps to try:
(credit and thanks to Rick Rogers)
"Click start/run, type "regsvr32 regwizc.dll" (without the quotes) and
click "ok". Then do the same for "regsvr32 licdll.dll". You should get
a successful message for both and it should resolve the error message.
If not, then try these steps:

Hi Malke, regsvr32 licdll.dll gave an error

Start the computer in Safe mode by hitting F8 at startup. Click
start/run, type regedit and click ok. Expand the branches in the left
pane by clicking the plus (+) signs to reach these keys:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers

I Couldn't find \Cryptography\Providers in either

Martin
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[kurttrail]

Hi kurttrail
Malke's suggestion didn't work and neither did deleting the wpa.dbl
and the wpa.old files. So I'll try a repair install

Martin
©¿©¬

Sorry! Good Luck, and just make sure you carefully follow the
directions for the repair install.

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Richard]

I have this problem from time to time. I finally found
it is a corrupt wpl.dbl file so I keep a good backup
copy on floppy. I use a Win ME boot to get the system
up and then copy the file from floppy to system32. Once
that is done I reboot. The first time it happened I luckly
had a copy of wpl.dbl on a backup disk.

Richard

 

[Steve N.]

I have this problem from time to time. I finally found
it is a corrupt wpl.dbl file so I keep a good backup
copy on floppy. I use a Win ME boot to get the system
up and then copy the file from floppy to system32. Once
that is done I reboot. The first time it happened I luckly
had a copy of wpl.dbl on a backup disk.

Richard

Test question:
What do you do if the file system on hard drive is NTFS?

Steve

 

[kurttrail]

Test question:
What do you do if the file system on hard drive is NTFS?

Steve

Boot to the recovery console?

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Don Burnette]

Unfortunately PA doesn't always work as it is supposed to, and MS
doesn't really care that that their paying customers have problems
with it.

If Malke suggestion doesn't work, then try deleting the wpa.dbl and
the wpa.old files while in safe mofe, and then click on Start > Run
and type in:

chkdsk /r

How to boot into Safe Mode:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#12

Then if all else fails, do a repair install.


http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Ya know, I have changed hardware many times in the past since having Windows
XP, and activation has never been an issue. Most activations went
effortlessly via the internet, and had only had one where I had to call in,
and that was fairly painless us well.

However, I must now admit I too have experienced activation woes..

I just finished building a 64 bit system, and as I usually do when changing
motherboards, booted from the XP cd initially, and did a repair install. No
problem there, however upon completion and booting into XP Pro, it locked me
out. Would not let me boot into XP one time even. I had to boot up in safe
mode, and from there get the activation number to call and punch in all the
numbers it asked for , and punch in all the new activation numbers it gave
me. Was kind of a pain in the butt when I should have been downloading and
installing current drivers, etc...

Granted, took only bout 10-15 minutes to finally get it activated, but it
was in the middle of the night after working a few hours building this
system, and I really wasn't in the mood!
I thought it gave a 3 day grace period for instances like this? The repair
install was done with my XP Pro cd with SP1 already included in it...

Anways, thought I would eat some crow and let y'all know ..

Btw, nice to see the helpful posts Kurttrail,

 

[kurttrail]

Ya know, I have changed hardware many times in the past since having
Windows XP, and activation has never been an issue. Most activations
went effortlessly via the internet, and had only had one where I had
to call in, and that was fairly painless us well.

However, I must now admit I too have experienced activation woes..

I just finished building a 64 bit system, and as I usually do when
changing motherboards, booted from the XP cd initially, and did a
repair install. No problem there, however upon completion and booting
into XP Pro, it locked me out. Would not let me boot into XP one
time even. I had to boot up in safe mode, and from there get the
activation number to call and punch in all the numbers it asked for ,
and punch in all the new activation numbers it gave me. Was kind of a
pain in the butt when I should have been downloading and installing
current drivers, etc...
Granted, took only bout 10-15 minutes to finally get it activated,
but it was in the middle of the night after working a few hours
building this system, and I really wasn't in the mood!
I thought it gave a 3 day grace period for instances like this? The
repair install was done with my XP Pro cd with SP1 already included
in it...

You should have gotten the 3 day period. Did you change the Time/Date
in the BIOS before loading into any part of windows, including the
repair setup, because if you did it after, that might be the reason you
didn't get the three days.

Anways, thought I would eat some crow and let y'all know ..

Btw, nice to see the helpful posts Kurttrail,

No need to eat crow. Its just the PITA of PA, as no code is perfect,
but there is nothing that PA gives the End User other than the
occasional PITA.

Real piracy isn't slowed down a bit, you still pay the same price for
the software, which includes the cost to cover real piracy, plus on top
of that you get the PITA of PA.

Sorry, you got your PA problems, but at least yours was a simpler
solution than many other people have had to do, and aren't a technically
knowledgeable as you.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Don Burnette]

You should have gotten the 3 day period. Did you change the Time/Date
in the BIOS before loading into any part of windows, including the
repair setup, because if you did it after, that might be the reason
you didn't get the three days.


No need to eat crow. Its just the PITA of PA, as no code is perfect,
but there is nothing that PA gives the End User other than the
occasional PITA.

Real piracy isn't slowed down a bit, you still pay the same price for
the software, which includes the cost to cover real piracy, plus on
top of that you get the PITA of PA.

Sorry, you got your PA problems, but at least yours was a simpler
solution than many other people have had to do, and aren't a
technically knowledgeable as you.

Hmm, can't remember if I corrected the date in the bios before doing the
repair install or not, that may be it.

Yeah, your right, it was a simple solution for me, for the average home user
though it may not have been, and it wa a PITA.

Thanks,

 

[Martin ©¿©¬]

Hi kurttrail
Windows is working/loading as expected now and i'm not sure what fixed
it - i'm just happy that it's fixed

Many thanks to U and Malke for your help

Regards
Martin
©¿©¬

 

[Steve N.]

Boot to the recovery console?

There's no need to boot from any other medium. Booting to Safe Mode will
get past the activation lock-out and allow file copying from floppy.

Steve

 

[Don Burnette]

You should have gotten the 3 day period. Did you change the Time/Date
in the BIOS before loading into any part of windows, including the
repair setup, because if you did it after, that might be the reason
you didn't get the three days.


No need to eat crow. Its just the PITA of PA, as no code is perfect,
but there is nothing that PA gives the End User other than the
occasional PITA.

Real piracy isn't slowed down a bit, you still pay the same price for
the software, which includes the cost to cover real piracy, plus on
top of that you get the PITA of PA.

Sorry, you got your PA problems, but at least yours was a simpler
solution than many other people have had to do, and aren't a
technically knowledgeable as you.

Well well, guess I am going to have eat little more crow .

Ok, so just went through what I did couple weeks ago after new system build
right?
Tonight, I install the latest Cat 5.3 drivers from ATI for my Radeon 9800
Pro video card.

Guess what, due to all hardware changes since last activation, I have to
re-activate again! At least this time, it is giving me 3 days to get it
done.

What the heck, just got it all activated after building this new system,
install a new video card driver, and boom - too many hardware changes, have
to re-activate again.

Wow.... Think I'll wait a day or two just for the heck of it, might want to
install another driver or something ...

 

[kurttrail]

Well well, guess I am going to have eat little more crow .

Ok, so just went through what I did couple weeks ago after new system
build right?
Tonight, I install the latest Cat 5.3 drivers from ATI for my Radeon
9800 Pro video card.

Guess what, due to all hardware changes since last activation, I have
to re-activate again! At least this time, it is giving me 3 days to
get it done.

What the heck, just got it all activated after building this new
system, install a new video card driver, and boom - too many hardware
changes, have to re-activate again.

Wow.... Think I'll wait a day or two just for the heck of it, might
want to install another driver or something ...

And drivers aren't supposed to trigger PA at all, only hardware changes.
That sucks.

It's bad enough to make paying customers jump through hoops, but then
the hoops have a mind of their own and keep changing without any rhyme
or reason to it.

If you have to phone MS this time too, you might want to talk to a
supervisor and mention that you didn't change any hardware this time,
and that all you did was a driver change, and that PA is only supposed
to count hardware changes. Maybe you can get them them to reset the PA
data on their servers, so that if you have another driver update set off
PA some time in the near future, and ATI usually releases drivers much
sooner than every 120 days, that your next re-activation would go
through over the internet. It can't hurt to try.

And thanks for letting me know about the new Cats, I just got a
PowerColor Radeon x800 XL a couple of weaks ago, and I'm anxious to see
if the PCIe support is any better for this recently released card with
the first driver set released after this card hit the market.

Good Luck, and let me know how it goes with PA this time, if you have to
call again, and if you can convince them to reset you.

--
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"

 

[Don Burnette]

And drivers aren't supposed to trigger PA at all, only hardware
changes. That sucks.

It's bad enough to make paying customers jump through hoops, but then
the hoops have a mind of their own and keep changing without any rhyme
or reason to it.

If you have to phone MS this time too, you might want to talk to a
supervisor and mention that you didn't change any hardware this time,
and that all you did was a driver change, and that PA is only supposed
to count hardware changes. Maybe you can get them them to reset the
PA data on their servers, so that if you have another driver update
set off PA some time in the near future, and ATI usually releases
drivers much sooner than every 120 days, that your next re-activation
would go through over the internet. It can't hurt to try.

And thanks for letting me know about the new Cats, I just got a
PowerColor Radeon x800 XL a couple of weaks ago, and I'm anxious to
see if the PCIe support is any better for this recently released card
with the first driver set released after this card hit the market.

Good Luck, and let me know how it goes with PA this time, if you have
to call again, and if you can convince them to reset you.

Will do.
The new cats just came out today, and support OpenGL 2.0. I fly Pacific
Fighters, and it got rid of texture corruption running with perfect water in
OpenGL, at least so far, so I was pleased.
Yes, they release drivers once a month, and I always upgrade them. Was very
suprised this time around at getting the activation message, I would have
thought everything would have been set after having to call in just 2 weeks
ago after this system build.