Click on the start button on Windows XP after installation. Then in option, my computers go to properties and click on it. Check windows activation and click on change product key, then press ok. Then copy or type Windows XP product keys which are given as above and paste it into the activation box. Then press ok.
I was running XP Pro SP3 but the PC motherboard failed. Replaced it with a new one (with compatible new CPU; graphics and network are onboard). Hard disk boots to Windows but repeatedly restarts; putting it in another PC, it passes CHKDSK, so I assumethat a Windows system component is missing or corrupt. Re-installed Windows OK from original CD, using Repair option for existing Windows system, and it then boots but requires re-activation immediately after login (as expected).
Click OK, the message disappearsand I'm left with the desktop picture (and no menus) which sits there forever, presumably because it's trying to activate over the network which isn't active as the driver hasn't been installed yet and I can't install it until Windows is running. There wasn'ta phone option for activation but I tried the phone activation line that I used when I originally installed and got passed several times to other technicians.
The last one sent me an email on how to activate. I know how to activate, but I don't get any furtherthan confirming that I want to activate - I don't get as far as numbers to key in on the phone pad. Safe Mode says that I must reboot normally to activate and returns me to the login screen. I can get into Safe Mode with DOS prompt, but then what? Hi J Bennison,I see that you are trying to activate Windows XP Pro SP2.
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Any industrial vendor that relies on another company's OS to run the application that powers its equipment, and doesn't keep the system up to date, is reckless and irresponsible. We all know that there are people whose full time job is testing mission-critical applications against every major OS update and security patch (you might be one of them!)What they should have done is written their own micro OS and application interface in-house, and ensured that it didn't really need to be updated at all.There are many other industries already engaged in this practice. Examples: Boeing and Airbus make goddamn airplanes with proprietary software and displays that don't require a Windows update, and their service life is 20-30 years.