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04.28.2008 at 10:39AM PDT, ID: 23359513
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Cannot activate windows Keeps taking me back to logon screen

Asked by final4fever in Microsoft Operating Systems, Windows XP Operating System

Tags: I can not log-in with activating first

I have just upgraded a laptop from XP Home to XP Pro... clean install!

 

Went through the process installed put in a genuine windows license key (bought it from Tiger Direct). When it boots for first time it says I can not log-in with activating first, so I do... It then says my copy of windows is activated. SO... I get to the welcome screen and try to login and it comes up that my copy of windows must be activated with Microsoft before I can log on. Do I want to activate windows now. If I say yes I go through the process and it tells me I am already activated and the does it again and again etc... If I say no it just takes me to logon and go in circles again.

 

SO... no matter what I do I can not logon... so no Internet... no being able to look at properties or validate, or control panel NOTHING it stays at the logon!

 

WHat can I do here... I have reformatted 3 times.... It is an Acer 1640 laptop!
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