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| Thread ID: 53856 | 2005-01-29 04:44:00 | XP activation | Greg (193) | Press F1 |
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| 319089 | 2005-01-29 04:44:00 | On my new laptop with XP Home SP2 I haven't been prompted to activate it - at what stage will this happen? I've never done an XP activation before. It was pre-installed so could activation have been done by the distributor? Thx |
Greg (193) | ||
| 319090 | 2005-01-29 04:46:00 | It's quite likely that the activation was done by whoever sold you the laptop. You still should have had to agree to the Microsoft EULA though. | agent (30) | ||
| 319091 | 2005-01-29 04:58:00 | If you go into 'start> all programs> system tools> activate windows>' it will tell you if it has been done already. I think it will also show at the top of the start menu something like 'Activate windows' with a key icon if it hasn't. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 319092 | 2005-01-29 05:17:00 | Strange but there's absolutely no reference anywhere in any menu/control panel to activation. Never mind, it's obviously been done by the importers and I was just mildly curious. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 319093 | 2005-01-29 06:18:00 | Else it's been disabled for one reason or another. Try running %SystemRoot%\system32\wpabaln.exe - if it doesn't show up in Task Manager or nothing happens, it may have been disabled. I really can't be sure because I disabled the activation service on my computer once I had it activated. |
agent (30) | ||
| 319094 | 2005-01-29 06:55:00 | If ever it needs to be done (and it probably was done if it was fired up to test / burn in the system before you got it) its a matter of clicking "yes" when it asks you to connect to the web, it happens in the background and takes all of 5 seconds. In other words, it's invisible once you have agreed to it, but it does advise of the success. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 319095 | 2005-01-29 07:26:00 | It doesn't have it, But then you only have recovery cds/partition anyhow so that copy of Windows won't install on anything but that laptop. | Metla (12) | ||
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