Activation wizzard

[M Schlueter]

I have a problem with the activation wizard. It was
telling me I had X day's left to activate it, but when I
would go through the sequence to activate Windows XP Home,
it would tell me it was already activated. Now it has
moved past the activation date and will not let me access
windows. It asks me if I want to activate it at the
welcome screen and then goes back to the welcome screen
when I select yes. This process goes round and round and
I cannot get into the OS. I can boot it in safe mode.
Hoe do I fix this?

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Go to start/run, and type

regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll

OK, then,

regsvr32.exe licdll.dll

Edit the Value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrent Version\WPAEvents
"OOBETimer "
Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate Windows.


Restart windows:


Start/Run, type:
%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a


--
Mark L. Ferguson TabletPC MVP
Email address : Subject: "QZ" + anything
All email without "QZ" in the subject line will be automatically deleted.
marfer's notes for XP > http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/xp_notes.htm
..


"M Schlueter" > wrote in message
...
> I have a problem with the activation wizard. It was
> telling me I had X day's left to activate it, but when I
> would go through the sequence to activate Windows XP Home,
> it would tell me it was already activated. Now it has
> moved past the activation date and will not let me access
> windows. It asks me if I want to activate it at the
> welcome screen and then goes back to the welcome screen
> when I select yes. This process goes round and round and
> I cannot get into the OS. I can boot it in safe mode.
> Hoe do I fix this?

[M Schlueter]

ok, thanks, however I am not sure where I will find this
to change a value.
">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrent
Version\WPAEvents
>"OOBETimer "
> Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate
Windows"

I ran the first two file and got simple pop up messages
indicating it was successful.


>-----Original Message-----
>Go to start/run, and type
>
>regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll
>
>OK, then,
>
>regsvr32.exe licdll.dll
>
>Edit the Value:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrent
Version\WPAEvents
>"OOBETimer "
> Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate
Windows.
>
>
>Restart windows:
>
>
>Start/Run, type:
> %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
>
>
>--
>Mark L. Ferguson TabletPC MVP
>Email address : Subject: "QZ" +
anything
>All email without "QZ" in the subject line will be
automatically deleted.
>marfer's notes for XP >
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/xp_notes.htm
>..
>
>
>"M Schlueter" > wrote in message
...
>> I have a problem with the activation wizard. It was
>> telling me I had X day's left to activate it, but when I
>> would go through the sequence to activate Windows XP
Home,
>> it would tell me it was already activated. Now it has
>> moved past the activation date and will not let me
access
>> windows. It asks me if I want to activate it at the
>> welcome screen and then goes back to the welcome screen
>> when I select yes. This process goes round and round
and
>> I cannot get into the OS. I can boot it in safe mode.
>> Hoe do I fix this?
>
>.
>

[Mark L. Ferguson]

HOW TO: Back Up, Edit, and Restore the Registry in Windows XP and Windows Server
2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q322756

--
Mark L. Ferguson TabletPC MVP
Email address : Subject: "QZ" + anything
All email without "QZ" in the subject line will be automatically deleted.
marfer's notes for XP > http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/xp_notes.htm
..

"M Schlueter" > wrote in message
...
> ok, thanks, however I am not sure where I will find this
> to change a value.
> ">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrent
> Version\WPAEvents
> >"OOBETimer "
> > Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate
> Windows"
>
> I ran the first two file and got simple pop up messages
> indicating it was successful.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Go to start/run, and type
> >
> >regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll
> >
> >OK, then,
> >
> >regsvr32.exe licdll.dll
> >
> >Edit the Value:
> >
> >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrent
> Version\WPAEvents
> >"OOBETimer "
> > Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate
> Windows.
> >
> >
> >Restart windows:
> >
> >
> >Start/Run, type:
> > %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
> >
> >
> >--
> >Mark L. Ferguson TabletPC MVP
> >Email address : Subject: "QZ" +
> anything
> >All email without "QZ" in the subject line will be
> automatically deleted.
> >marfer's notes for XP >
> http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/xp_notes.htm
> >..
> >
> >
> >"M Schlueter" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> I have a problem with the activation wizard. It was
> >> telling me I had X day's left to activate it, but when I
> >> would go through the sequence to activate Windows XP
> Home,
> >> it would tell me it was already activated. Now it has
> >> moved past the activation date and will not let me
> access
> >> windows. It asks me if I want to activate it at the
> >> welcome screen and then goes back to the welcome screen
> >> when I select yes. This process goes round and round
> and
> >> I cannot get into the OS. I can boot it in safe mode.
> >> Hoe do I fix this?
> >
> >.
> >