"Your Product is already activated."

[Guest]

I just reinstalld my copy of Windows XP Professional, but when i get prompted
to activate it, I get this message ("Your Product is already activated.") and
then it closes. It's done this to me every time i log on for the past 5
days, and its just been counting down from 30, to presumaly one when i dont
know what will happen.

Tried calling my manufacturer, (Gateway), but they referred me to the
activation line, who were abslutely worthless and didnt even listen to me. I
really dont want to pay $35 just to be able to use my copy of windows (fee MS
charges), anyone have any way to fix this?

 

[M and D]

"You are prompted to activate Windows every time you restart your computer"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312295/en-us

Steven

 

[Guest]

That doesnt ehlp, because its contingent on being able to activate windos a
first time, I've yet to do that on this instal, it has said since I
reinstalled that my product is already activated.

 

[Guest]

Did you replace your Gateway motherboard with a
non-Gateway motherboard?

 

[Guest]

no, its a laptop, none of the hardware has changed

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Possible solution:

Boot into "Safe Mode" by pressing F8 during the boot cycle.

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.

Apparently, and I can't say how, the above files became unregistered.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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