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Ksingler · 06-07-2009, 06:05 PM

So my uncle brought me a one of his friend's computer to try to fix. First boot up I got past the Welcome screen, but then got an error box saying that windows needed to be activated. So I clicked yes to activate it and got to the desktop screen, but didn't show any icons or anything.. the blue activation box opened, but it already said that windows was activated, so I clicked OK to exit out of it. But after clicking exit, it took me back to the screen where you click on a user. This kept happening on the Administrator and then on the Owner user. It just kept repeating, whether I clicked yes or no to activate windows. Don't know why this is happening if after I click yes to activate it, it already says it's activated.

So I restarted the computer and booted into safe mode. I got into that just fine and ran scans. Deleted a lot of viruses and whatnot. Followed the guide. So I restarted the comp and tried to boot into safe mode with networking but got an error saying that I needed to first activate windows.

Any ideas on why this won't go away? I'm stumped.

EDIT: Seems like I have finally found the instructions to fix this on microsoft's webiste.

EDIT 2: Didn't work. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks.

06-07-2009, 06:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ksingler Super Techie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 371	Windows activation error.. So my uncle brought me a one of his friend's computer to try to fix. First boot up I got past the Welcome screen, but then got an error box saying that windows needed to be activated. So I clicked yes to activate it and got to the desktop screen, but didn't show any icons or anything.. the blue activation box opened, but it already said that windows was activated, so I clicked OK to exit out of it. But after clicking exit, it took me back to the screen where you click on a user. This kept happening on the Administrator and then on the Owner user. It just kept repeating, whether I clicked yes or no to activate windows. Don't know why this is happening if after I click yes to activate it, it already says it's activated. So I restarted the computer and booted into safe mode. I got into that just fine and ran scans. Deleted a lot of viruses and whatnot. Followed the guide. So I restarted the comp and tried to boot into safe mode with networking but got an error saying that I needed to first activate windows. Any ideas on why this won't go away? I'm stumped. EDIT: Seems like I have finally found the instructions to fix this on microsoft's webiste. EDIT 2: Didn't work. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks. Last edited by Ksingler; 06-07-2009 at 06:53 PM.