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Windows XP Home Activation Problem

Asked by: tech4b

How do I reset WPA completely, and also the default security provider settings?

I've come across a machine which for some reason, is convinced there is a problem with WPA:

The error onscreen is:

Windows Product Activation

A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code 0x80090019


After googling around I found the default security provider is probably corrupt and attempted to reset it but this has so far not helped.

How would I go about completely resetting this in order to solve the problem?

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2006-11-29 at 02:58:29ID22076043
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Answers

 

by: burrcmPosted on 2006-11-29 at 03:34:54ID: 18035838

If you rename wpa.dbl in System32, the system should on reboot require activation. Doing so should restore matters to normal.

Chirs B

 

by: tech4bPosted on 2006-11-29 at 03:51:13ID: 18035885

Hi Chris,

I removed wpa.dbl from the system32 folder and that didn't help.  

In the mean time, I've created a BartPE disk and scanned the machine with Spybot Search & Destroy and it came up with 3 items, which looked fairly benign.

Additionally, booting to safe mode causes the machine to blue screen - the last printed line mentions system32\drivers\mup.sys so I guess it must be the next driver after that that takes down safe mode.

Normal boot works ok, except obviously it wont let me login until its happy with the activation status which it claims it can't verify.

Ta

Michael

 

by: ruijietanPosted on 2006-11-29 at 05:24:06ID: 18036429

Try repairing your Windows Installation and try activating again to see if the WPA problem has been fixed.

 

by: sramesh2kPosted on 2006-11-29 at 07:21:16ID: 18037435

Michael,

Does this KB help?

You may receive error code 0x80004005 or other error codes when you try to start a Windows XP-based computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914232

 

by: tech4bPosted on 2006-11-29 at 18:02:50ID: 18042472

Ok, so I've solved this initial problem and got a new one.

First the solution:

Booted up with a PE (i used BartPE) and moved logon.scr out of the way, and copied cmd.exe co logon.scr.
Next, I edited the registy and set the screen saver timeout to 15 seconds instead of 600 to speed things up.

Reboot back to the machine, waited my 15 seconds and up comes a command prompt running as PCNAME\SYSTEM

Then i completed the following:

'Stop the Cryptographic Service
WshShell.Run("net stop cryptsvc")

'Delete the Catroot2 folder
fso.DeleteFolder(CatRoot2)

'Configure the Cryptographic service to start automatically
WshShell.Run("sc config cryptsvc start= auto")

'Restart the Service
WshShell.Run("net start cryptsvc")

'Re-register necessary DLL's, whether they need it or not.
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 wintrust.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 softpub.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 initpki.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 dssenh.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 rsaenh.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 sccbase.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 slbcsp.dll /s")
WshShell.Run("regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll /s")

Set fso = Nothing
Set WshShell = Nothing

And also I removed the wpa.dbl, and modified the OOBTimer value to be invalid and restarted.

This has corrected the problem with the 0x80090019 error.

Of course, now the machine wont let me activate it.

Will submit more detail when I have it.

 

by: Computer101Posted on 2006-12-25 at 18:56:41ID: 18197042

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