Windows Product Acrivation (XP)

[HORACE BRYAN]

Help Help

I have a Dell laptop and just upgraded to XP Professional from Home version. Now when I boot it states "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80004005." I viewed the Microsoft site and it has something to do with a change in the registry. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Horace,
Try this:

Boot into Safe Mode
Go to start/run, and type
regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll

Click OK and wait for the message that the registration succeeded. Then
Go to start/run, and type
regsvr32.exe licdll.dll

Click OK and wait for the confirmation again. Reboot the system.

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup and Deployment

Remember to check Windows Update often,
and apply the patches marked as Critical!
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Help Help

I have a Dell laptop and just upgraded to XP Professional from Home version.
Now when I boot it states "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately
checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80004005." I viewed
the Microsoft site and it has something to do with a change in the registry.
Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

 

[HORACE BRYAN]

Mike,
Thanks for your suggestion I tried it and got the "Ok's' however it did not work

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HORACE BRYAN
Horace,
Try this:

Boot into Safe Mode
Go to start/run, and type
regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll

Click OK and wait for the message that the registration succeeded. Then
Go to start/run, and type
regsvr32.exe licdll.dll

Click OK and wait for the confirmation again. Reboot the system.

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup and Deployment

Remember to check Windows Update often,
and apply the patches marked as Critical!
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Help Help

I have a Dell laptop and just upgraded to XP Professional from Home version.
Now when I boot it states "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately
checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80004005." I viewed
the Microsoft site and it has something to do with a change in the registry.
Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Horace,

Are you able to reach Safe mode by hitting F8 at boot and logging on as
administrator?

If so, 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



Help Help

I have a Dell laptop and just upgraded to XP Professional from Home version.
Now when I boot it states "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately
checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80004005." I viewed
the Microsoft site and it has something to do with a change in the registry.
Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a Dell laptop and just upgraded to XP Professional from Home version. Now when I boot it states "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80004005." I viewed the Microsoft site and it has something to do with a change in the registry. Can anyone help?

See http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;310794


That details the steps to take. Start - Run and type in regedit.exe,
click OK

Open the left pane items just like in Explorer, by successively clicking
+ boxes at

HKEY_USERS
..DEFAULT
Software
Microsoft
Cryptography

then highlight the final
Providers
hit Delete and confirm that yes you do.

Repeat at S-1-5-20 instead of .DEFAULT
and at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
etc

 

[HORACE BRYAN]

Thanks all for the suggestions, but still not working. Any additional suggestions?

--
HORACE BRYAN
Help Help

I have a Dell laptop and just upgraded to XP Professional from Home version. Now when I boot it states "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80004005." I viewed the Microsoft site and it has something to do with a change in the registry. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks all for the suggestions, but still not working. Any additional suggestions?

In that case I think I would force it into a fresh activation.

1. In the registry, go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents

Highlight it and File - Export (as a precaution) then
in the right pane double click OOBETimer and very carefully change just
the first byte (to say 00)

2. Copy the two files windows\system32\wpa.dbl and wpa.bak to a
different folder, and delete them

3. Get on the internet

4. Go to
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Activate Windows
and use Activate on the internet now.

That should only take a few seconds and should activate successfully.
If it gives trouble, put those files back, and import the registry key
back again, before doing anything else.

 

[HORACE BRYAN]

Alex,

Thanks again for your help. It still did not work, therefore I reinstalled XP Professional. When it asked me to activate windows now, I said no. When it finished installing I followed your instructions and activated windows.

Thanks again

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HORACE BRYAN

Thanks all for the suggestions, but still not working. Any additional suggestions?

In that case I think I would force it into a fresh activation.

1. In the registry, go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents

Highlight it and File - Export (as a precaution) then
in the right pane double click OOBETimer and very carefully change just
the first byte (to say 00)

2. Copy the two files windows\system32\wpa.dbl and wpa.bak to a
different folder, and delete them

3. Get on the internet

4. Go to
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Activate Windows
and use Activate on the internet now.

That should only take a few seconds and should activate successfully.
If it gives trouble, put those files back, and import the registry key
back again, before doing anything else.

 

[Rookie]

I keep getting this same error code. Will reloading windows take care o
the problem

Rooki