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03-08-2006, 10:41 PM
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I screwed up my XP home edition
 Need some help fellers. Caught a bug last August on my laptop (yep pRon did me in). *Screwed* up my windows media player and screwed up my registries. Tried registry mechanic, but I was still not able to get online - IE didn't work. I need this done lickitysplit as I use my personal computer for work (military) and I'm going away from home in a week and won't have any access to the internet to reach out and touch. My latest trick was to repair XP. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm & http://www.theeldergeek.com/activation_workaround.htm Didn't work  as it's asking me to activate. I saved the wpa.dbl file like some directions I found on here. After the reinstall, I was promted to activate. Followed directions to find/rename wpa.dbl file. Searched for file and same one was still on hard drive. So basically now all I have is a useless piece of electricity consumption as I can't do a darn thing on it.Now, if someone would please assist me in reintalling XP Home I'd greatly appreciate it. I've already backed-up to CD all my files so a clean reinstall would suffice as long as I don't have the activation problem as mentioned above. Thanks much. Last edited by Statica; 03-08-2006 at 10:52 PM. Reason: Please read our rules concerning language use on these forums |
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03-08-2006, 10:49 PM
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Chuck I aint a mod around here or anything but i would edit this to remove the euphemisms for the f word. I don't think they allow that. Just a word to the wise.
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03-08-2006, 10:54 PM
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Thanks sarge. Kinda new, kinda wired needing some help please and thanks. Thought some humor would work.
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03-08-2006, 10:55 PM
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Welcome to the PCM forums Chuck.
The question is, why cant you just activate it? the wpa.dbl method is ok, but not 100% effective so if it doesnt work, all you need to do is to reactivate it and it should be fine (assuming of course, that your license of XP home is legal) |
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03-08-2006, 11:00 PM
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I have the CD disk that came with the computer with which I reinstalled XP Home with. Activation - how. My apoligies for not being the computer guy, reason I'm here. Is it as easy as pluggin into my cable modem and activating?
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03-08-2006, 11:07 PM
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Activation can be done a number of ways
one is over the internet . should take a few seconds that's all If you dont want to do that there is a phone option as well .. again about 5 min or so at max. |
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03-09-2006, 09:31 AM
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Thanks fellers. I got it sorted out. Reinstall worked like a charm and all is well.
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03-19-2006, 10:43 AM
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Did reactivation solve the problem or did you find something else?
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