![]() When you activate Windows XP, Microsoft stores the data in the Windows Product Activation database files wpa.dbl and Wpa.bak in the folder%systemroot% system32. If you change the motherboard or make significant hardware changes, XP will require you to reactive. But if you plan to reinstall XP on the same hardware, you can back up the activation status and then restore it after you reinstall and avoid the activation process. You can backup the Windows Product Activation database files to diskette. They are very small. A directory listing from my XP Pro workstation: C: WINDOWS system32>dir wp* Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 8447-0571 Directory of C: WINDOWS system32 08:28 PM 12,584 wpa.bak 09:05 AM 12,642 wpa.dbl After you reinstall XP, to restore the Windows Product Activation database files: • Start XP to Minimal Safe mode • Change directory to the%systemroot% system32 folder • Rename the newly created wpa.dbl to wpa.nonactivated and wpa.bak, if it exists, to wpabak.nonactivated. ![]() • Copy your backed up wpa.dbl and wpb.bak files to the system32 folder • Reboot This should work if you want to avoid activating XP after a reinstall or restore on the same or very similar hardware. It will not work if the hardware is significantly different from that in place when the Windows Product Activation database files were created. I tried to format it and reinstall XP OEM from the CD Fujitsu have me. How to activate Windows XP. How to contact a Microsoft Product Activation Center. Jan 19, 2012. (*UPDATE NOTE: Microsoft no longer supplies XP update files, but provided. It's not legal to activate your Windows 8.1 activation key without a product key. If it says OEM Pro service pack 2 then that would have the best chance of installing with that key and not giving you any problems. Sep 30, 2015 Windows XP Mode on Windows 8. And on the activation window, does it say 'activate. Because this string cannot be found the OEM certificate and OEM. This is not a hack to avoid activating installations. Related: • • •. Ok, the short story. My system wouldn't start up even into safe command prompt. So, I put in the XP disk and Repaired the installation. Product Key for Windows XP Professional Activation Free with serial keys and. How to activate Windows XP. Windows XP Product Key Generator. After that it boots up fine, comes up to the login screen, even loads my custom desktop picture. I log in (it even logs into my domain) and it says, Windows needs to Activate in order to run. That didn't surprise me. Nothing ever happens (well not for 30 minutes). My screen is blank except for my desktop background and mouse pointer. No CTRL ALT DEL, no ALT Tab, nothing. The only things that tell me the pc is still running is my mouse will pop into a circle if I hit the left cntrl key (it does that) and if I hit shift 5 times the disability help functions come up. I then realized I might have 2 problems. One the XP disk I used was not actually for that machine and it was a SP2 disk and my system was SP3. So I downloaded SP3 on another machine and installed it again. I can only get into a safe mode command prompt. Safe mode, safe mode with network and normal all ask for activation then do nothing. In safe mode I was able to run the MGA Diag and it shows the wrong COA. It won't connect to the internet in command prompt mode, so it can't do the automatic fix. I downloaded the tool to change the COA, but it won't run in safe mode. SO I am stuck. I can go into normal mode, but can't do anything. The tools I need to maybe fix it won't run in safe mode The actual recovery disk for this system will reformat and repartition my harddrive and I want to avoid that if possible. Any helpful ideas? Hey mate I had this same problem today with a customers computer after doing a Windows repair on it, I found this on a forum somewhere after doing a lot of googling basically it just resets the activation timer then once you are in Windows again you can activate it again here are the steps.
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