Windows XP activation problem

[paulreims]

Hello,
I have a coupe of machines on one of our site on which I get the error
"n days left for activation". The PC's were installed with our Volume
Licensing key, so the license is valid. When I double-click on the
message, the activation window appears and tells me "Your Windows is
already activated", without having to reenter the License key or
anything else.
When I restart the PC and logon again, I get the same error "n days
left for activation".....

We have about 1000 PC's installed with the same key and I only get the
message on 6 PC's.

Thank you very much in advance

PR

 

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Hello,
I have a coupe of machines on one of our site on which I get the error
"n days left for activation". The PC's were installed with our Volume
Licensing key, so the license is valid. When I double-click on the
message, the activation window appears and tells me "Your Windows is
already activated", without having to reenter the License key or
anything else.
When I restart the PC and logon again, I get the same error "n days
left for activation".....

We have about 1000 PC's installed with the same key and I only get the
message on 6 PC's.

Thank you very much in advance

PR

Did you changed any hardware on these machines?.
See this answer posted by Carey Frisch, MS-MVP:

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.
See this by the late MVP Alex Nichol's explanation of WPA:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
HTH.
nass