About 30 days ago I reformatted my HD, but I never made a belarc profile of my computer..oopsie.
When I went to activate it, I noticed my sticker is off of my computer. It must have come off durring the move.
Last night, I found an old backup disk I made, and it had a text document with all of my game codes, xp code, yada yada yada!! Whoo HOO!!
When I rebooted my computer, it said I needed to activate windows. I clicked ok, and it said it was already activated. Today, when I tried to log on, it asked me again to activate, so I clicked ok--it said it was already activated--BUT NOW it kicks me back to the log in screen and says I need to activate windows.
I try, it says it is acticvated, I get logged off, and the vicious loop continues.
Can anyone tell me how I can activate windows? I can get into safe mode.
EDIT: Yesterday, before this mess, I bought a new video card. The store, staples, installed it for me. The person said he tried to turn off the activation warning but couldn't becasue I have SP2. I was a little upset because I did not ask that of him. I wonder if what he tried is related to my problem.
thanks for any ideas...
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Believe it or not, the best thing you can do at the moment is to contact Microsoft directly. Their support staff is pretty good, and calls about WPA are free. If you don't want to do that, though, hit their knowledgebase at support.microsoft.com.
It recommends the two commands below as a potential fix.
quote: Type the following at a command line (like Start|Run or CMD.exe): regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll regsvr32.exe licdll.dll