Activate Windows
I activated windows immediately upon installing. But now i get message on my taskbar counting down days left to activate. So I click the little set of keys and up comes a blank screen and nothing loads, so I wait still nothing loads in the window.
I activated windows immediately upon installing. But now i get message on my taskbar counting down days left to activate. So I click the little set of keys and up comes a blank screen and nothing loads, so I wait still nothing loads in the window. So I close it. This is while i'm connected to the internet of course. After a while it does it again.. and again now it is 12 days left and I worry if my OS will stop working after it reaches 0.
Any Ideas what to to?
thanx
DaveBC
System Specs:
WinXP Home Upgrade from Win98SE
Athlon Slot A 850mhz
VIA KX 133, w/VIA 4in1437v(a), w/IDE_MPD3014, w/VAGP410
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 062710 11/20/00
256 mb Kingmax PC133 SDRAM Cas2 Clk2
Maxtor Diamond Max 30gig ATA66 7200rpm
Creative 52x CDrom
Creative SBLive Xgamer 5.1 w/XP Driver Update
Conexant 56k v.90 Flex modem (avg connect 45.2k to 48k)
Hercules GeForce 2 GTS/Pro 64 mb DDR w/nvidia ref driver XP21.83 With Quadro 2 driver
patch(Infinite loop fix) AGP 4x w/fastwrites enabled, 128 mb apature
DX 8.1
MS Sidewinder Precision Pro
Altec Lansing 5 Speaker Surround
KDS Visual Sensations 19 Monitor Desktop 1024x768x32 @ 70Hz
Any Ideas what to to?
thanx
DaveBC
System Specs:
WinXP Home Upgrade from Win98SE
Athlon Slot A 850mhz
VIA KX 133, w/VIA 4in1437v(a), w/IDE_MPD3014, w/VAGP410
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 062710 11/20/00
256 mb Kingmax PC133 SDRAM Cas2 Clk2
Maxtor Diamond Max 30gig ATA66 7200rpm
Creative 52x CDrom
Creative SBLive Xgamer 5.1 w/XP Driver Update
Conexant 56k v.90 Flex modem (avg connect 45.2k to 48k)
Hercules GeForce 2 GTS/Pro 64 mb DDR w/nvidia ref driver XP21.83 With Quadro 2 driver
patch(Infinite loop fix) AGP 4x w/fastwrites enabled, 128 mb apature
DX 8.1
MS Sidewinder Precision Pro
Altec Lansing 5 Speaker Surround
KDS Visual Sensations 19 Monitor Desktop 1024x768x32 @ 70Hz
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What you have to remember is that the OS will never totally stop working.
Once the counter hits 0 days left it will just boot to a prompt asking you to either go on-line to activate or to call MS and enter the code they give you.
Once you hit 0 it should be prompting you to log on to your ISP and activate, worst case you'll be on the phone for 2 mins (Done a practice call, it really is only 2 mins) to get a code.
Once the counter hits 0 days left it will just boot to a prompt asking you to either go on-line to activate or to call MS and enter the code they give you.
Once you hit 0 it should be prompting you to log on to your ISP and activate, worst case you'll be on the phone for 2 mins (Done a practice call, it really is only 2 mins) to get a code.
I didn't have any problems activating my XP Home over the Internet. But I have a question though, actually two:
1. Is there a problem if I decide to wipe out my installation and re-install from scratch a couple of times? Does that hinder or is it noticed by the activation process?
2. Can I install the same copy of Windows on another computer, and activate it thru the phone (no internet connection)? Does the MS policy allow that? I own the second PC, it's in my house, not anywhere else?
1. Is there a problem if I decide to wipe out my installation and re-install from scratch a couple of times? Does that hinder or is it noticed by the activation process?
2. Can I install the same copy of Windows on another computer, and activate it thru the phone (no internet connection)? Does the MS policy allow that? I own the second PC, it's in my house, not anywhere else?
1. If you are re-installing your OS lots of times before the 30day activation limit then it wont matter, you'll never get around to activating.
If you wipe and re-install after you have activated and you do so onto the same hardware, then the on-line activation wont bat an eyelid when you re-activate.
However, I have Win2k installations that have been running for 18 months, gone are the days when you needed to wipe & reinstall ever few months (Win9x).
2. No, one license, one PC.
It's been that way with MS licenses for quite a while now, in fact for OS's it's always been that way.
More than one PC MS sell "Home License" kits.
If you wipe and re-install after you have activated and you do so onto the same hardware, then the on-line activation wont bat an eyelid when you re-activate.
However, I have Win2k installations that have been running for 18 months, gone are the days when you needed to wipe & reinstall ever few months (Win9x).
2. No, one license, one PC.
It's been that way with MS licenses for quite a while now, in fact for OS's it's always been that way.
More than one PC MS sell "Home License" kits.
