Activating windows

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Hope someone can help, I spent 2 hours last night on the phone with so called
microsoft technicians to no avail...... I performed a safe rcovery on my
computer, now when I boot up, it gets as far as our user accounts... when I
click on my account, a box pops up and asks for windows to be activated, but
when I click on yes to activate, that's as far as it goes...goes to my screen
saver screen and nothing else... no icons, no start bar... . I have tried
every(?) possible option in safe mode, but none allow to activate windows in
safe mode.... there must be SOME way to activate windows without the start
bar.... Any suggestions?

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yes, it starts slow, but normal......No, not newly installed..... I have done
a 'Full system recovery' before, whereby, once it was done, the activation
screen automatically popped up, filled in the info and away she went, no
problem..... but, this time, I didn't want to lose my data, so did the safe
one... I was told I would be able to access the internet in "safe mode for
networking".... but, it doesn't let you... cannot access in safe mode.....
so, have no way to access the internet either to look for a solution.....
Thanks for trying tho....

"River_Rat" wrote:

> Does Windows startup normally?
> Did you just install Windows?
>
> You can do a repair install.
> http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
>
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> Good Day
> River Rat
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> "Sram" <Sram@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E5E7FB5F-01A2-4A80-87B7-9A7ADA695E3E@microsoft.com...
> Hope someone can help, I spent 2 hours last night on the phone with so
> called
> microsoft technicians to no avail...... I performed a safe rcovery on my
> computer, now when I boot up, it gets as far as our user accounts... when I
> click on my account, a box pops up and asks for windows to be activated, but
> when I click on yes to activate, that's as far as it goes...goes to my
> screen
> saver screen and nothing else... no icons, no start bar... . I have tried
> every(?) possible option in safe mode, but none allow to activate windows in
> safe mode.... there must be SOME way to activate windows without the start
> bar.... Any suggestions?
>
>
>

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The Unknown P wrote:
> In safe mode with networking. click start\all programs\accessories\system
> tools\activate windows and see what happens. You should also be able to use
> the XP CD to boot back into the recovery console and attempt a fixboot but
> try the first method and see if that helps. You should not have had to
> reactivate. Post back if that doesn't work. TTFN.
>
Oh dear, the non-quoter has re-appeared.
PLONK!

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In news:3dprq9F6vgq9fU4@individual.net,
Gordon <gordonbp1@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> replied with a ;-)
> The Unknown P wrote:
>> In safe mode with networking. click start\all
>> programs\accessories\system tools\activate windows and see what
>> happens. You should also be able to use the XP CD to boot back into
>> the recovery console and attempt a fixboot but try the first
>> method and see if that helps. You should not have had to reactivate.
>> Post back if that doesn't work. TTFN.
> Oh dear, the non-quoter has re-appeared.
> PLONK!

I know, amazingly annoying. 8-(
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