Windows is already activated. click ok to exit

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Search Advanced…. Log in. Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4. Support UI. X Donate Contact us. New posts Trending Search forums. What's new. New posts New profile posts Latest activity. Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts Billboard Trophies. Windows already activated. Forums Software Windows Legacy. JavaScript is disabled. Email to a friend Print My Windows XP installation seems to be caught in an activation loop; each time I activate successfully and restart, it asks me to activate again, just to tell me I've already activated and restarts the process over again!

This error is not specific to Cybernet Units and the following steps were comprised of our own research and solutions found in other knowledge bases online. We have determined the following steps have worked best for most systems. Please note that it is best to turn off System Restore and similar tools to prevent restoration of the corrupted activation file. Boot into safe mode and copy the known-good wpa.

Reboot, and all should be OK again. Somehow, after several reboots, it loged on. Don't ask me how, but it did. Then, I installed all the drivers, without rebooting.

When I rebooted, I got back to the same "You must activate windows". The solution: 1 Formatted the hard drive 2 Installed Windows XP Professional 3 Cracked and made a few changes to the registry 4 I'm just installing the lastest updates now.

I am so happy that I use Linux. So bloody happy. And I am even happier because Windows exists. Otherwise, computers wouldn't stop working and I'd have no job at all. Thank you Microsoft for being so incompetent. Without you, I'd be starving without a penny in my pocket.

If a guy from Microsoft offered me a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for free, I wouldn't accept it. Windows has always been a piece of you-know-what.

I'm on Windows at this very moment, but it's only a virtual machine. Microsoft websites don't like Firefox very much and make everything difficult. They trully believe that IE is a good product. Sorry for the rant, guys. I'm not even from this forum but I get so stressed with this Microsoft stupidity that I had to shout at someone. Pages: [ 1 ] Go Up. SMF 2. This article describes how to remove a script that may interfere with Windows activation. To do this, you must start the computer in safe mode, modify the Windows registry, and then restore the Windows product activation file.

Then, you can reactivate Windows. After you follow these steps, you are no longer prompted to activate Windows when you start the computer. This problem occurs because a script that interferes with Windows activation is running on the computer Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry.

However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. Start the computer. When the computer is running in safe mode, log on by using an account that has administrator rights and permissions.

Then, click Yes in the message that states that Windows is running in safe mode.