Help with Activation

[Ickabod Crane]

Ok, i am having problem with activating my WindowsXp Pro.
I can not find anywhere that will allow me to do this, and
i have already had to reinstall everything because the 30
Day thing ran out once already.
In the Book that came with the Disk it says on page 8 "
this can be done during setup, "it never asked me, only to
register,' or by clicking Start > All Programs > Activate
WIndows< which its not there."

I have tried doing a search for Activate. it brings up an
HTML that is Incomplete and gives me the choice to
activate it, but will not let me click the green NEXT
button.
Any help here would be Greately appreciated.

[Gary Tait]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:03:07 -0800, "Ickabod Crane"
> wrote:

>Ok, i am having problem with activating my WindowsXp Pro.
>I can not find anywhere that will allow me to do this, and
>i have already had to reinstall everything because the 30
>Day thing ran out once already.
>In the Book that came with the Disk it says on page 8 "
>this can be done during setup, "it never asked me, only to
>register,' or by clicking Start > All Programs > Activate
>WIndows< which its not there."
>
>I have tried doing a search for Activate. it brings up an
>HTML that is Incomplete and gives me the choice to
>activate it, but will not let me click the green NEXT
>button.
>Any help here would be Greately appreciated.

Start>Run c/windows/system32/oobe/msoobe.exe /a

[Robert Tuck]

Go to Start -> Run, then type "oobe/msoobe /a" (without quotes). This
should bring up the activation manager. If it has trouble finding the
msoobe executable, it's in the c:\windows\system32\oobe folder.


"Ickabod Crane" > wrote in message
...
> Ok, i am having problem with activating my WindowsXp Pro.
> I can not find anywhere that will allow me to do this, and
> i have already had to reinstall everything because the 30
> Day thing ran out once already.
> In the Book that came with the Disk it says on page 8 "
> this can be done during setup, "it never asked me, only to
> register,' or by clicking Start > All Programs > Activate
> WIndows< which its not there."
>
> I have tried doing a search for Activate. it brings up an
> HTML that is Incomplete and gives me the choice to
> activate it, but will not let me click the green NEXT
> button.
> Any help here would be Greately appreciated.
>