WinXP Activation?

[Guest]

Hello

After I purchased WinXP Home edition, everytime I logged on I was reminded how man
day's left to activate. When I clicked yes to activate it did nothing.
I could not find in my system tools the activate key icon. So needless to say my time ran ou
and I can get into windows only as far as the message that states " you must activate before you can log onto Windows
Would you like to activate now?" I click yes. I hear the closing windows tune
and I'm brought back to login. and it starts all over again
Now that my WinXP activation time period had expired how can I get it activated?
Please, can anyone help me
sincerely, injoyslife
( although from this vantage point I'm not enjoying myself. HAHA

 

[Ron Martell]

Hello,

After I purchased WinXP Home edition, everytime I logged on I was reminded how many
day's left to activate. When I clicked yes to activate it did nothing.
I could not find in my system tools the activate key icon. So needless to say my time ran out
and I can get into windows only as far as the message that states " you must activate before you can log onto Windows,
Would you like to activate now?" I click yes. I hear the closing windows tune,
and I'm brought back to login. and it starts all over again.
Now that my WinXP activation time period had expired how can I get it activated?
Please, can anyone help me,
sincerely, injoyslife
( although from this vantage point I'm not enjoying myself. HAHA)

Try booting into Safe Mode and see if the Activate Windows item is
available on the system tools menu.

I am not sure if the activation timeout will allow you to do the
following in safe mode but it is worth trying. It will repair the
activation file registrations.

Use Start- Run and enter the following text in the dialog box:
regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll

Then do it again with the following text:
regsvr32.exe licdll.dll


If that works then you can try to launch the activation utility
manually by using Start - Run and entering:
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /A

Good luck




Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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