{"id":98,"date":"2004-07-29T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.33.66\/wp\/?p=98"},"modified":"2004-07-29T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T21:30:45","slug":"98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Verdana size=2><br \/>\nFor people who are having activation problems.<\/p>\n<p>This was from a Microsoft website, but I modified for home and pro<br \/>\nusers.<\/p>\n<p>This will only work if your version of xp is LEGAL and 30 days have<br \/>\nnot passed. Still might work even if the 30 days have passed if you<br \/>\nhave xp sp1 or greater.<\/p>\n<p>Click Start, and then click Run.<br \/>\nIn the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.<br \/>\nIn the left pane, locate and then click the following registry key:<br \/>\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\WindowsNT\\Cu rrent<br \/>\nVersion\\WPAEvents<\/p>\n<p>In the right pane, right-click OOBETimer, and then click Modify.<br \/>\nChange at least one digit of this value to deactivate Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Click Start, and then click Run.<br \/>\nIn the Open box, type the following command, and then click OK.<br \/>\n%systemroot%\\system32\\oobe\\msoobe.exe \/a<\/p>\n<p>Click Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to<br \/>\nactivate Windows, and then click Next. Click Change Product key.<br \/>\nType the same product key you use to install windows xp in the New key<br \/>\nboxes, and then click Update. If you are returned to the previous<br \/>\nwindow, click Remind me later, and then restart the computer<\/p>\n<p>Activate Windows.<br \/>\nRestart Computer<br \/>\nCheck to see if windows is activated<br \/>\nClick Start, and then click Run.<br \/>\nIn the Open box, type the following command, and then click OK.<br \/>\n%systemroot%\\system32\\oobe\\msoobe.exe \/a<br \/>\nClick OK.<\/p>\n<p>Xp Oem preinstalled systems may not activate. So repeat above, then<br \/>\nuse the product key on the back of your system instead. Then<br \/>\nActivate.<\/p>\n<p>Greg R<br \/>\nExcerpts were from this page but modified for the home &#038; pro users<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/defaul&#8230;kb;en-us;328874<\/p>\n<p>The reason I posted this new thread<br \/>\nI getting tired of people saying go out any buy a legal version of xp.<br \/>\nWhen they may have a legal version to begin with. Just the<br \/>\nactivation Scheme got messed up by a bad install. Also, I getting<br \/>\ntired of people saying you need to reinstall. You shouldn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For people who are having activation problems. This was from a Microsoft website, but I modified for home and pro users. This will only work if your version of xp is LEGAL and 30 days have not passed. Still might &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=98\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}