SP2 upgrade activation

[Tracy]

I have no problem upgrading SP2 except that it is asking me to activate it. I
have 30 days for this activation, but it no longer recognises my product key.
Does anyone know how I can get around this?

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Tracy;
What do you mean?
You do not need to input a Product Key at this point, it is already
there.
Choose the option to activate by phone and call the displayed number
for your region.
Done in about 5 minutes.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Tracy" > wrote in message
...
>I have no problem upgrading SP2 except that it is asking me to
>activate it. I
> have 30 days for this activation, but it no longer recognises my
> product key.
> Does anyone know how I can get around this?

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Tracy,

Installing SP2 should not prompt for activation. Something else had to have
triggered it.

Start/run regsvr32 regwizc.dll
Then start/run regsvr32 licdll.dll

If this doesn't help try these steps:

Start the computer in Safe mode by hitting F8 at bootup. Start/run regedit.
Delete the following keys:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Cryptograph y\Providers
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers

Exit the registry editor, restart normally.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Tracy" > wrote in message
...
>I have no problem upgrading SP2 except that it is asking me to activate it.
>I
> have 30 days for this activation, but it no longer recognises my product
> key.
> Does anyone know how I can get around this?

[Daryl]

I suspect that you were upgrading XP Pro? If so, then you
probably had a hot copy installed. Did your product key
start off 'FCK'? If not, you still most likely have a hot
copy of XP, most lely through a WPA hack. SP2 undoes the
WPA hack and you need to enter a 'valid' Produvt key.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have no problem upgrading SP2 except that it is asking
me to activate it. I
>have 30 days for this activation, but it no longer
recognises my product key.
>Does anyone know how I can get around this?
>.
>

[Lael 7621]

>I have no problem upgrading SP2 except that it is asking me to activate it. I
>
>have 30 days for this activation, but it no longer recognises my product key.
>
>Does anyone know how I can get around this?

You are "cooked"...er...

Look, according to published accounts, SP2 FAILS on 40% of the attempted
installations...2 rounds in a 5 shot .38 Special.

Don't like the odds...going back to Windows 98 Second Edition!

It will supplement my new iMac nicely.

[Rock]

Lael 7621 wrote:

>>I have no problem upgrading SP2 except that it is asking me to activate it. I
>>
>>have 30 days for this activation, but it no longer recognises my product key.
>>
>>Does anyone know how I can get around this?
>
>
> You are "cooked"...er...
>
> Look, according to published accounts, SP2 FAILS on 40% of the attempted
> installations...2 rounds in a 5 shot .38 Special.
>
> Don't like the odds...going back to Windows 98 Second Edition!
>
> It will supplement my new iMac nicely.

What's your source on that?

[Lael 7621]

>What's your source on that?

CRN July 23, 2004.
<snip>

CRN Test Center engineers evaluated a release candidate two (RC2) version of
SP2, and upon completion of the install on three out of five systems, the
machines blue-screened. A message stated that "winserv" was missing. The blue
screen occurred on both Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel platforms, and
all systems were running Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 1 installed. Every
possible avenue to get back into Windows failed.

<snip>

On the other hand, a more recent article in the Register ["biting the hand that
feeds IT!"] put the UK SP2 blowup rate at 10%.

The source for the Mac??

"uptime" <enter> in Terminal at the command line returns the stat that, despite
heavy usage, the iMac G4 running Panther has been running continuously for 32
DAYS, 19 Hours and 45 Minutes.

Look, leaving the MS-Intel family was traumatic, involving 9 machines since
1985.

But, from now on, Wintel is STRICTLY for OFFLINE grunt tasks, like File
Extension conversions.

[Rock]

Lael 7621 wrote:

>>What's your source on that?
>
>
> CRN July 23, 2004.
> <snip>
>
> CRN Test Center engineers evaluated a release candidate two (RC2) version of
> SP2, and upon completion of the install on three out of five systems, the
> machines blue-screened. A message stated that "winserv" was missing. The blue
> screen occurred on both Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel platforms, and
> all systems were running Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 1 installed. Every
> possible avenue to get back into Windows failed.
>
> <snip>
>
> On the other hand, a more recent article in the Register ["biting the hand that
> feeds IT!"] put the UK SP2 blowup rate at 10%.
>
> The source for the Mac??
>
> "uptime" <enter> in Terminal at the command line returns the stat that, despite
> heavy usage, the iMac G4 running Panther has been running continuously for 32
> DAYS, 19 Hours and 45 Minutes.
>
> Look, leaving the MS-Intel family was traumatic, involving 9 machines since
> 1985.
>
> But, from now on, Wintel is STRICTLY for OFFLINE grunt tasks, like File
> Extension conversions.

So you are stating as fact about the rtm version of SP2 what one group
found when installing an RC version? And that based on a sample of 5
computers? Your credibility is not worth much when you make statements
based on that kind of data. 10% seems more reasonable, and much of that
is due to the changes in the functionality, a firewall setting needs
changing, OE blocks attachments by default, etc.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

5 systems total?
Not a significant sample to be relevant.
Then RC-2, do you know what that means?
Beta.
Do you know what a Beta is?
Beta is essentially an unfinished product still in testing.
Thus the relevance of that article is next to Nil.

10% from The Register?
Read closer.
That is 10% will have some type of problem.
Most are easily fixed my making the appropriate adjustments
appropriate to the new security measures.
Much is simply a software update or a driver update.
But those 10% do not represent computers that "blowup"
Finally most of those that "blowup" could have been prevented if
hardware and software compatibility with SP-2 was verified and
computer was properly prepared:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/xpsp2.htm
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Lael 7621" > wrote in message
...
> >What's your source on that?
>
> CRN July 23, 2004.
> <snip>
>
> CRN Test Center engineers evaluated a release candidate two (RC2)
> version of
> SP2, and upon completion of the install on three out of five
> systems, the
> machines blue-screened. A message stated that "winserv" was missing.
> The blue
> screen occurred on both Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel
> platforms, and
> all systems were running Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 1
> installed. Every
> possible avenue to get back into Windows failed.
>
> <snip>
>
> On the other hand, a more recent article in the Register ["biting
> the hand that
> feeds IT!"] put the UK SP2 blowup rate at 10%.
>
> The source for the Mac??
>
> "uptime" <enter> in Terminal at the command line returns the stat
> that, despite
> heavy usage, the iMac G4 running Panther has been running
> continuously for 32
> DAYS, 19 Hours and 45 Minutes.
>
> Look, leaving the MS-Intel family was traumatic, involving 9
> machines since
> 1985.
>
> But, from now on, Wintel is STRICTLY for OFFLINE grunt tasks, like
> File
> Extension conversions.

[Don Taylor]

(Lael 7621) writes:
....
>The source for the Mac??

>"uptime" <enter> in Terminal at the command line returns the stat that, despite
> heavy usage, the iMac G4 running Panther has been running continuously for 32
>DAYS, 19 Hours and 45 Minutes.

I did a contract job for an industrial test system running on a Sun Sparc.
It ran the software as fast as it could go, to get the test time for each
Fiber Channel module down under 3 minutes. It did this 24 hours a day 365
days a year. Years after I had finished all the software and left I got a
call. They wanted to pay me to come down and give a short class on how to
boot the machine. Nobody still worked at the plant who was there when we
installed it and someone realized that if they ever cycled the power that
they wouldn't know how to restart the system.

Reliable hardware and software is possible, you just don't know it.

[Alex Nichol]

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:

>What do you mean?
>You do not need to input a Product Key at this point, it is already
>there.
>Choose the option to activate by phone and call the displayed number
>for your region.
>Done in about 5 minutes.

Should not even need to use the By Phone option; get on the net, go to
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Activate Windows
and use Activate on the Internet now

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Yves Leclerc]

XP OEM only seems to allow 2 Internet activiations (ever)! The 120 days
does not appear to work with OEM versions.

Y.

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
...
> Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
>
>>What do you mean?
>>You do not need to input a Product Key at this point, it is already
>>there.
>>Choose the option to activate by phone and call the displayed number
>>for your region.
>>Done in about 5 minutes.
>
> Should not even need to use the By Phone option; get on the net, go to
> Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Activate Windows
> and use Activate on the Internet now
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Yves;
No, there is no limit to the number of activations on the original
computer.
Whoever gave you that information is incorrect.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Yves Leclerc" > wrote in message
...
> XP OEM only seems to allow 2 Internet activiations (ever)! The 120
> days does not appear to work with OEM versions.
>
> Y.

[Lael 7621]

>Years after I had finished all the software and left I got a
>call. They wanted to pay me to come down and give a short class on how to
>boot the machine. Nobody still worked at the plant who was there when we
>installed it and someone realized that if they ever cycled the power that
>they wouldn't know how to restart the system.
>
>Reliable hardware and software is possible, you just don't know it.
>
>
>
>
>

Actually, I do!!!

Our daughter's first [and ONLY PC...she went MAC in college] was an ACER WIN 95
166 MHz P I in 1996.

It had an ACER DAEMON to intercept the dreaded Blue Screen Of DEATH and in 20
seconds automatically repair!!!

Now, with the Hard Drive moaning with Bearing Wear, we can't find the original
Win 95 with the Registry code!!!

Why other box makers didn't install that DAEMON...

Absent that, I finally learned from my daughter...GO MAC!!!