Continue on with the activation dialog and complete the activation over the phone. You can also double check your activation key as many of the digits are difficult to tell apart. I take a picture of the key with my phone and zoom it in to tell a B from an 8 and a G from a 6.
Software piracy is a crime that we have the ability to stop within our own span of control. With the instructions above, you can resolve most of the issues surrounding licensing and activation of Windows 7. Home Windows General Windows How-tos. How to activate windows after the activation period expires. General Windows Windows 7. Tom Loveday This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Oct 29, 2 Minute Read.
I was able to fix this problem by starting the PC in safe mode with command prompt. I then typed "explorer" into the command prompt to load Windows. This extended my activation to 30 days. Even though this extended my activation period, I was still unable to get the activation program to start up. I fixed that by going into "regedit" and searching for the "wpaevents" folder. I then changed the permissions to include "User" for "Full control". I also went to my c: drive and changed the permissions to include "User", "Administrator", and "System" for "Full control".
I rebooted the machine and then was able to run Windows activation. Power on the PC and press F8 right before Windows begins to load. Select "Safe mode with command prompt". Now click on "Start" and in the "Run" box type "Rundll Press Enter. This will re-set activation to 30 days. Once more, click on "Start" then go to the "Run" box and type in "Regedit". Make sure that in Regedit you are highlighting "My Computer" at the very top.
Now go up to "Edit" then "Find" and type in "wpaevents" then press Enter. Right click on the "wpaevents" folder and go down to "Permissions". Highlight "User" and place a check mark in the box labeled "full control". Click "Apply" and exit regedit. Now double click "My Computer". Right click the C: drive and go down to "Properties".
Now click on the "Security" tab and modify "User", "Administrator", and "System" so that they all have "Full control". Click "Apply" and reboot the PC. This How-to is intended to assist in recovering a PC from a faulty repair install. I don't condone piracy, but I also don't believe in locking a user from their data with faulty control mechanisms. 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.
When I logged-on this next time, the expected Windows Activation screen greeted me and I was able to successfully activate! This weekend was the first time I'd switched it on since, and the XP log-on screen now tells me that XP is not longer Activated. I assume this is probably because one of the updates was for the MB it forced a re-Activation last time I manually downloaded newer MB drivers a couple of years ago. The problem I've got it that when I click any of the user accounts to log-on, it opens an 'Activating' window and then does nothing.
I guess it's trying to connect to the internet, but it fails to have any impact on my wireless router no flashing lights. I tried wiring it into the router but it does exactly the same thing. The 'Activating window will quite happily sit there doing nothing for 24 hrs. There is no information provided on the 'Activating' window, and the only button is the close 'x' in the top right corner - clicking this takes me bag to the log-on screen where all I can do is click on a user account with the same result, or click 'shut down'.
IIRC last time I had to re-Activate it failed when I tried to do it online and I had to do it over the phone - but that doesn't seem to be an option now. This thread is locked.
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