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XP Activation Blows
I decided today to upgrade my desktop's BIOS. Of course, Windows decided that this was a big enough change that I needed to reactivate. Not suprising, but what was suprising was the trouble I had to get to in order to reactivate. Apparently, Microsoft changed the activation policy a while back so that you can't reactivate a copy of Windows over the net. Unfortunately, at least in my case, it didn't say this when I tried to activate, it simply hung forever on the "Detecting Connection..." screen. So, after about 20 minutes of waiting and retrying, I decided to try phone activation. That ended with the same result 3 times in a row. The automated attendant said, "Sorry, I couldn't activate your copy of windows" and hung up on me. So I do some searching online and no one seems to have any information on the problem except that you need to speak to a customer representative... unfortunately, none of the options given on the phone let you speak to any live customer representative. Not wanting to settle for a broken desktop, I tried calling again and mashing the 0 button. I had to wait about 30 seconds for all the messages to finish before it worked and I was informed that I was being transfered to a live representative. Finally, after entering a new product key and clicking a few buttons, they were able to provide me with a working code. Now, why in the hell was this so hard to get working? At the very least, Microsoft could add a little message after the failed activation that says, "If you are sure your installation ID is correct, please press 0 to speak to a customer service representative." Apparently, the rep I talked with knew I needed to enter a different product key simply by looking at the first couple numbers of the installation ID, so why can't the automated service make the same judgement and transfer me straight to a rep after this first 6 digits instead of making me say the whole thing and then hanging up on me?
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If you alwasy want to get a warm body on the line, just call 1-800-MICROSOFT (seriously).
While I've had very few problems with activation, the irony is that it would probably take less effort to find and download an activation crack...
What makes that whole process the most silly is that ultimately you get a person that will give you the code you need and never do anything to verify you're not a pirate.
Here's how to REMOVE windows activation, its easy and it works!
1.Open your regedit RUN > REGEDIT
2.Find key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents
3.see the string OOBETimer
4.Double click.change all content with this one FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD
5.Right Click on WPAEvents(Regedit)and choose Permissions
6.Window will show up,click to System and check all of Deny Listbox
7.Restart Your PC
thanks twee, it really worked!!! i ran Activate Windows and it's saying "Windows is already activated" after following your instructions. awwweesommeee!!!
Thanks twee, it works ...
after 30 days...u won't be able to log in, and the Activate Windows window will open.
However, when you click on 'Yes' and start activation...it will say 'Windows is already Activated'....so in 30 days, it will leave u in a worse state, where it says that activation is done, but i can't log in.
it seams like it works but its not,
after 30 days you will asked for the activation.
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