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Necessary Necessary. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. However, I am not Lingo Literate yet, so can you please talk me through this process in plain terms. I have a Toshiba M35X-S notebook, and the scary part, it does not belong to me and I have to give it back soon!
Is it possible to reverse and uninstall this, because I heard that Windows explorer 8 is too difficult to work with. Please help, any help will be dearly appreciated!
This might be useful to somebody. I have an old legit. Microsoft will no longer activate it,but what I have found is that it will install and activate with no problems in Virtualbox. I did the same exact thing you did but when I got to the welcome screen the activation window came up again and says it needs to be activated so I click yes and instead of the screen that normaly comes up that asks you if you want to connect to the internet the window says that windows is already activated so I restarted and the activation window still pops up.
I am able to go into safe mode maybe there is something I can do from in there. Your information was fantastic and was so easy to use even for me. After been on the phone to them i still had no idea what was wrong until you explained it.
Thanks again your amazing. I had a similar situation. My experiences with tech calls have filled me the cynical apprehension that a 10 minute solution will take an hour or more to implement.
Luckily I found this awesome article. I booted up into safe mode, no network support, then went into the system properties found the ugly yellow question marked hardware and loaded the drivers. BTW — I have a dual boot system.
Ubuntu had no problem with the hardware. I bought a second hand computer that I thought was going to be fine…upon starting the computer message pops up. I do not have a startup menu…. Can anyone help me as I am totally clueless…Thanks. Your problems are almost identical to mines. And everything you said made me shake my head in agreement. I did not call support but here is my problem. I do not get an option to go into. I had this problem yesterday on a PC at work. Am running into a similar issue, except, I found out safe mode with networking wont let you log in for the same reason.
Will try just safe mode in a moment…. In my case I initially used a a Windows retail disk. As my network card was fine but other devices were not I downloaded a oem version which installed no problem.
Regards, Kieron. I know that this is an old thread but it appears to still be active. After the download you should boot into Safe Mode and install the SP3. When the installation is complete just reboot the computer and activate Windows XP via Internet or Telephone — whatever works for you. You will definetly get the installation ID. The reason I ask is because I to was going to do the same thing only difference is I was going to use my OEM system builder version of XP Home so I can reformat my dell laptop and use the product key from my laptop the laptop came with XP home.
Would this work? Been seeing mixed answers when searching the topic. I used an old security hole in XP to bypass the activation system long enough to install my drivers. That seems to be when the probems began. She called me and asked what to do; I told her to go ahead and tell it to activate. When she did, it told her that she was already activated, then all seemed well. Until I had to reboot her computer just before Christmas. After the reboot, the same message about activating Windows appears.
I told it to activate, and it told me that things were already activated. But then, it logged out of the boot process. Still no luck. I agree with J. I removed the hard drive and installed it in the new system that I decided to build. Any suggestions would be received thankfully. Hi Leo, about the missing installation ID. After reading your story, it pop up in my mind why the number is missing. Since you had no Network card installed. Something was missing to finalise the equation that creates the installation ID number.
The Installation ID Number is in fact the sum of all the hardware of the PC, which giving it a unique finger print for the activation combine with the Prod Key. That was originaly to prevent transfert of license number. And that way a Prod Key can not be used on two different PC. A friend ask me to solve the same problem today! I need to activate my wondows Xp but the numbers for the South Africa call centre does not work. Who do I call now? Thank you for posting your adventure.
I ran into exactly the same situation today. I followed your steps by installing drivers via Safe Mode, then activated over the Internet. I do not know why this happened. I am quite sure that I have the correct media.
Running into a similar issue. Have resolved this issue, but activation is still not completing. Oh the joys of repeated reboots! Thanks for the well written story. I am having the same exact problem. I am trying your advice now but not sure exactly what network drivers i need to find and install.
I have Dell Inspirion E with windows xp pro media edition. Just had the same problem: completetly out of the blue screen of death with a 4year old XP installation WGA OK etc and no harware changes for 24 months. Just sorted myself out and so can type this. Phone folks were really clueless, after an hour of onward referrals I was back at the start.
So the end result is that the genuine customer gets the pain and the pirates get the pleasure. Maybe I need a MAC. My problem — Dell again — I have had XP pro working happily for several years on a Dell Inspirion , but suddenly IE became corrupt and hung the machine. I had a similar issue with XP Pro. I ended up calling Microsoft, we changed the product key, and it still was blank. After a reboot, I was able to get into Windows and activate like normal.
Not a regular retail disk. It typically will error and tell you the product key is wrong. I am having a nearly identical issue with a couple of exceptions. After a bit of trouble, I was able to activate it yesterday just fine I had to manually change the activation key that the system originally tried to enter with my new OEM key. I downloaded 82 updates and re-started the system, I received the cannot login without activating.
Since I had completed the activation process less than 24 hours previous I was a bit annoyed. The entire first half of the article mimics my experience until the phone call. I am at the 40 minute mark and talking with my 3rd person as well, same as above.
He instantly went straight into the new product key and placed on hold. When he returned, we went into the register product and suddenly without changin keys I had an activation number displayed, but no phone numbers to call.
The fields were there but they were blank. We agreed to just activate with the given numbers. After I typed in the numbers from the rep, it stated we were good! Not so. When I clicked OK, I was sent to the login screen with a nifty logo in the bottom right corner displaying the XP was not activate. I log in and immediately get the notice that the product is not active, would you like to activate now. I click on yes, a new window pops up stating the software is already active.
I click OK and it returns me to the login screen. I am now in a loop. Safe mode will no longer bypass this I tried. On 3rd attempt to repair, my own fault. Hit the wrong option. I was given a prompt for the product key and used the one provided by the help tech, not the one I purchased.
It accepted it and continued with the install. Back in windows, cannot activate it, cannot even see activation window. IE has limited functions, cannot use address, only search and links. Cannot download any files. In the lower right hand corner is a list of reasone and links to why validation failed.
The beta program fixed the problem. Now i am dealing with a known issue with IE7 as that was the dafualt browser installed and blocking me from most internet issues.
After about 10 minutes the autoupdate feature kicked in and is installing security updates even though I was blocked from doing it manually. Currently on the phone for 2 hours and 29 minutes. Looks like this will get fixed. Go straight to SP3 and other security updates firt. Even the tech I talked to was not familiar with this new Beta site. But it worked!
Attempts to hand update via the microsoft site are blocked because I have an incomplete update and need to restart. GB worth of files in the temporary directory. No other program that requires the use of Windows install will proceed. Any suggestions welcomed.
I checked for the porduct key underneath the laptop,entered it. This is thee kind of msg i get, yet iam able to connect and browse the internet with the same laptop, what connection do in need to do? Finally resolved my problem after hours with MS Support and EasyAssist — just delete a registry entry. Easy Assist is installed using the installer — or in my case, not installed. This is a fundamental error in logic.
A support system designed to repair a faulty system that relies on the system working before it can be used. I was considering putting the back in, but I solved the issue by just activating over the phone, which worked for me this time. My computer hard drive had to be replaced.
And after the tech guy returned my computer. It worked wonderfully. Till I started receiving that ominous notice that I had so many days to register windows.
When I tried, it said my copy was illegal and that I had to buy a legal copy of xp. I paid by visa the price, and tried to load it, and it failed. Microsoft tech support and other depts tried and tried to help me for around 2 hours. Then they said, they did not recognize my copy of windows I bought from them. So I canceled the transaction. Now I am down to only 3 days till time to activate, or my computer dies.
I guess. I am so angry, I feel like just letting it time out. The man who installed this copy promises to fix it, but has never showed. About to loose my computer. I have refurbished hundreds of PCs in the last few years and this is the first time I have experienced this exact same problem.
I always install XP followed by SP3, then the drivers and then activation. I tried the suggestions put forward. Stuck in a WLAN card I had lying around on the bench, did a fresh install with exactly the same result- a message indicating that activation was required before getting in to Windows but no installation id could be generated.
I then did an update to SP3 while in safe mode and on rebooting all was well. Installed the drivers and a few programs and activated by phone without any problems. Looks like this problem is a bug in XP which is fixed by updating to SP3. Was this page helpful? Thank you! Start a conversation. Copy link. Software deals Friday round-up. I agree with the Privacy Policy regarding my personal data.
More on this Topic December 29, The best Windows XP software you can still use today If you're still running Windows XP in , here are some of the best software solutions that you can use on your computer. Step 2: Run Explorer from the Command prompt to start Windows. Once the Command prompt loads, type in "explorer" to start Windows within Safe mode.
Step 3: Run "Rundll Step 4: Modify the wpaevents folder in the Registry. Step 5: Modify the C: drives permissions. Step 6: Run Windows activation. Now Windows activation will run and the PC will become usable again. References Toms hardware topic on Windows Activation. Had to do the exact same only last week. Nice to have it documented here. Lawrence Oct 18, at am. This is an awesome solution. Thanks very much for sharing.. I'm new at Spiceworx.
So Far Awesome. Flint Madziya Dec 26, at pm. BB Mar 25, at am. 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 [Update] I left the PC on the wallpaper, no Explorer, no icons all night long and discovered the PC must've logged-off or rebooted during the night. Thanks for any further suggestions.
Thank you so much!
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