View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Popular Topics in General Windows. Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the system power is turned off? Submit ». L This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional.
Thai Pepper. Paul This person is a verified professional. Kinda Dead in the water until I can get this figured out!!!! SO you don't have the Dell disk that came with it? Throw a free Linux Distro on it. Magnus Jan 17, at UTC. NetworkNerd This person is a verified professional. Edited Jan 18, at UTC. But ya, I went through the same problem you are having, i had to reformat. Those are not usually legitimate sources for product keys. I would recommend against that.
Bud G. This person is a verified professional. Ghost Chili. AceOfSpades This person is a verified professional. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. A command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system. A dos command box will show type the following into the box.
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Thanks for your feedback. If you send me your e-mail address to. If any thing else, use the file tab of explorer. To automatically avoid activation loop: since activation is no longer available After trial period runs out for new install , When notifified that activation is neccessary to access windows XP: 1 Restart computer 2 Hold down F8 key to enter safemode menu 3 Choose safemode with command prompt 4 Cancel any new hardware install request 5 At prompt type in "explorer.
Run batch file, then restart computer. When the days get low just run the batch file and the the trial period is reset after restart. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Now go up to "Edit" then "Find" and type in "wpaevents" then press Enter. Right click on the "wpaevents" folder and go down to "Permissions".
Highlight "User" and place a check mark in the box labeled "full control". Click "Apply" and exit regedit. Now double click "My Computer". Right click the C: drive and go down to "Properties". Now click on the "Security" tab and modify "User", "Administrator", and "System" so that they all have "Full control". Click "Apply" and reboot the PC. This How-to is intended to assist in recovering a PC from a faulty repair install.
I don't condone piracy, but I also don't believe in locking a user from their data with faulty control mechanisms. I was so hopeful, because this post added the permissions steps, but when I do as described, the login after saying "yes" to activation just shows the wallpaper forever.
When I logged-on this next time, the expected Windows Activation screen greeted me and I was able to successfully activate! I used this method, and still get the wallpaper screen forever. I am working to recover an old computer which has had it's ethernet controller fail, as well as the internal wi-fi.
I have attached a USB wi-fi adapter, and run the installation software in safemode. When I reboot, I still get the "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate Windows now? Thanks, needed this today. It was getting critical. A new install would have taken days because of the support from a 3rd party vendor.
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