XP activation issues?

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

A reader asked me about a Sony laptop where every time he starts it up, it comes up and says it needs to be activated. Then it comes up and says “Windows is already activated” and contiues on in this circular logic pattern. It’s been happening since installing the MS Anti-spyware and updating WMP, but is the OEM version of XP Home that came with the laptop so there are no actual piracy issues. I haven’t seen this behavior in any of the SP2 updates I’ve done here, but figured I’d throw it out here and see if anyone else has?

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • Evening out

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Had another meetup with a fellow blogger this evening. This time Angela and I ventured out to Easton for dinner, good conversation and a few laughs with Andy and his wife, Kristen. Angela has pictures!. (Pity the poor woman at the next table who wound up in the background of our pics and who’s likeness…

  • My own thoughts

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Regarding my previous question from the weekend about where you draw the line between keeping up a good relationship with your users and letting them walk all over you with non-work technology issues, I would mostly err on the side of letting them walk over you. There’s definitely a line that needs to be drawn…

  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’m at work now with my green on, and a handful of Irish CD’s ready to listen to all day. (Flogging Molly, Black 47, Prodigals, Young Dubliners, Seven Nations, etc. Couldn’t find the Pogues or Dropkick Murphy’s CD’s this morning.) Must be St. Patrick’s Day! The only thing missing is a Guinness to sip on…

  • Updates!

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I just posted an update to the News Aggregator Showdon article today. Here’s what I added: “Additional followup: Upon further investigation, I discovered one major flaw with Newzcrawler, the permalinks don’t seem to work on many blog RSS feeds.It’s not enough to sway me to the other choice but it’s troubling. I also tried, on…

  • For Jeff

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    To the Jeff who emailed me about our voicemail server today, I haven’t been able to E-mail you back, my mail server is bouncing them. I guess it doesn’t have the proper DNS entries for your domain at this moment. Anyways I don’t really have anything permanent to solve the issue of your voicemail server…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)