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Cannot activate Windows XP
With windows XP or Win 98 for sure. I have bought and used XP home OEM on 4 different computers and never had a problem. What the rules are and what you can It can't be against the law or MICROSOFT wouldn't activate it. Thank you. -- Carl G "Ken Blake, MVP" <kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message

product activation question, my story
I installed my copy of Windows on this new drive without a problem, but now cant activate windows since it's been too recently that it was activated with all of my changes (I I also am finding that I can't purchase an OEM version (in order to use the activation code) unless I purchase a core piece of hardware.

Installed new Video Card... can't activate windows
I noticed that I can't seem to get into media player and I can't seem to find the disc cleanup program. I am also trying to find a way to activate windows (I think that is the problem) but the window screen for that shows a blue screen and 2 little boxes with a circle square and triangle in them, so I have no way

WPA NOT sa bad
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "manimbored" <manimbored.33x...@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:manimbored.33x8f2@no-mx.forums.net... It shouldn't...I didn't have to reactivate after a mobo switch. It was the same model, totally different serial number and BIOS

Windows Activation
I still can't activate Windows! It's the only thing that doesn't seem to connect to the internet! Everything else does. (obviously) Any other stuff I can do? Not sure why this is not working, but to avoid problems, use the Activate by telephone option. Takes about 5 minutes. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows

windows xp, the mother-in-law OS
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Rick Rogers" <r...@mvps.org> wrote in message news:eV5pBjQYIHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... Hi, You'll need to use the phone activation method. When you call, if the automatic version fails just hold the line for a real person.

Personalization windows
I can't find any answers on the microsoft website, and I don't want to pay 210 dollars an hour to call and get an answer. I watched the media video from the microsoft website. They said I could call to activate my Windows XP OS. But, to get the number to call, you have to have the activation program actually

How to de-activate Windows XP?
You cannot log on until you activate Windows. Do you want to activate Windows now? message box. I have HealthMonitor http://healthmonitor.zucchetti.com installed and it After it was all done and rebooted the last time, I can't log into the server due to an activation problem: When I log in from the console,

Win XP Service Pack 1 Problem !!!!!
I try to activate Windows and it says can't connect to activation server try again.... Is this some bullshit message because i watched the activation wizard connect to the microsoft site exchanged some bytes and stops ?? Have i been blacklisted somehow why can'ti re-activate my windows? Another thing it doesn't

activation
Doug Knox MS-MVP dk...@mvps.org microsoft public windows mediacenter And don't limit yourself to just the fixes on the Microsoft site. Check the other sources with a matching error code. It "very occassionally" happens that other fixes show up that MS doesn't post, can't replicate or doesn't know about.

Traversing windows with Cocoa/Applescript
So far, nobody has been able to tell me how I can activate windows when you can't get the activation screen to come up...... can't be done in safe mode... which is another beef of mine,.... why have a diagnostice mode, if you can't do diagnostics... grrrrrrr.... very frustrating..... I did get a hold of one person

Changing Computer :) (I think Its working Now :)
but now I can't activate the digital cable-tv feature in Windows Media Center b/c Vista is not accepting the product key supplied (it's in a sticker on the machine..) Obviously the cable company screwed up. Not Vista. folks where I bought my machine said it's b/c Vista has gotten corrupted and I need to re-install

Personalization windows
Maybe you can split the part of Macro2 that runs after File1 is closed into another macro (Macro3). Use an OnTime command to schedule it a few seconds in the future, .... 'runs fine when you run UPDATE from fxRM_Update file Windows("fxRM_Update.xls").Activate 'Protect 'Save Update file as User file name ' Dim bk As

Help! Windows Server 2003 R2 activation broken after upgrade o
What I did was reinstall Windows XP and when it detected an existing WinXP installation, I choose reinstall. Upon reinstallation, I was prompted to activate Windows XP (since mine was already activated previously). This was where the problem lies, I can't activate Windows because it doesn't allow me to change my

Activation problems after repair ??
Dana Cline - MCE MVP "ganxter" <ganx...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:607E770C-FF50-4B17-9B2D-B619C0356EC1@microsoft.com... i've just aquired a computer of a friend a hp media center with windows media center installed only thing is they haven't activated it and now its stuck in a vicious circle

200GB Hard Drive..How to Install Fresh XP?
I get no option to connect so windows can't do it on the web. Then I try on the phone but am told I have the wrong area code and I don't know where I am calling. Is there a temporary number to activate windows that I can put in the space that says "put your customer rep. activation # here". So I can connect and

help i can't activate windows
You can imagine how I'm loving M$ right now... OK, in order to salvage my current settings and not have to reinstall all my software, I'd like to hack my registry hives so WinXP thinks it hasn't been activated. I've done a few things 1) I moved all my old [root\WINDOWS] files and [documents & settings\user files]

Deleting a registry
Dana Cline - MVP dcl...@scriptpro.com microsoft public windows mediacenter So I guess now I'm wondering if Google can index Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, because this didn't show up in the first couple of pages... Dana Cline - MCE MVP "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dk...@mvps.org> wrote in message

Can't activate?
Bruce "Colin N." <lunaticthe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:133b601c224ce$d3d9bb80$9ee62ecf@tkmsftngxa05... I recently reformatted my computer, and it's now up and running again. Windows XP is asking me to re-active Windows thought, and I fill everything out and it said sorry but you can't activate Windows

Listen to Israeli Radio Live With MS-Windows Millennium Edition
You can't do this until AFTER the system is installed, so you have to do an initial installation on a system greater than 137 gig of an OS that doesn't support Why won't this method of installation work? For the record: - I did not activate Windows Yet (don't wanna have to redo it several times if I have to