windows xp activation

[Guest]

hi i could do with a bit of help as soon as posible, i hav installed a trial
of windows xp profesional, and havnt been able to get online to activate it
untill now, and i have only 2 days left to activate it. every time i try to
activate it online it says
"unable to establish a connection woth the activation server. please check
your network settings and confirm that you are able to connect to the
internet, then try again"

now i am obvioulsy connected to the internet perfectly, and there is no
problems with my connecttion,
does anybody know what is wrong?
any help will be greatly appreciated, as i dont really want to have to phone
to activate it.

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

hi i could do with a bit of help as soon as posible, i hav installed a
trial
of windows xp profesional, and havnt been able to get online to activate
it
untill now, and i have only 2 days left to activate it. every time i try
to
activate it online it says
"unable to establish a connection woth the activation server. please check
your network settings and confirm that you are able to connect to the
internet, then try again"

now i am obvioulsy connected to the internet perfectly, and there is no
problems with my connecttion,
does anybody know what is wrong?

Well there must be some problem as you cannot activate.

any help will be greatly appreciated, as i dont really want to have to
phone
to activate it.

Select the "activate via telephone" option - get operational then look at
your networking problems as you only have 2 days left.
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[Galen]

In unnoticedwolf <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

hi i could do with a bit of help as soon as posible, i hav installed
a trial of windows xp profesional, and havnt been able to get online
to activate it untill now, and i have only 2 days left to activate
it. every time i try to activate it online it says
"unable to establish a connection woth the activation server. please
check your network settings and confirm that you are able to connect
to the internet, then try again"

now i am obvioulsy connected to the internet perfectly, and there is
no problems with my connecttion,
does anybody know what is wrong?
any help will be greatly appreciated, as i dont really want to have
to phone to activate it.

A "trial" version? Is it paid for? If not then I don't know what sort of
error it'd be giving you but I don't think it will activate at all. If it is
paid for then yes, you should call in and activate but then it'd also be
wise to check to see if you're blocking the connection with your firewall or
if you're using some sort of compression software for a dialup modem that
would probably want to be disabled. If it's compression software then you
could add *.microsoft.com to the lists of sites who bypass the proxy
entirely.

Galen
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"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Ron Martell]

hi i could do with a bit of help as soon as posible, i hav installed a trial
of windows xp profesional, and havnt been able to get online to activate it
untill now, and i have only 2 days left to activate it. every time i try to
activate it online it says
"unable to establish a connection woth the activation server. please check
your network settings and confirm that you are able to connect to the
internet, then try again"

now i am obvioulsy connected to the internet perfectly, and there is no
problems with my connecttion,
does anybody know what is wrong?
any help will be greatly appreciated, as i dont really want to have to phone
to activate it.

The only current trial version of Windows XP that I am aware of is the
one for the 64 bit version of Windows XP.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/trial.mspx

Is that what you are trying to activate?

You may have to activate it by telephone.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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