Problems with activation. Cant get IE to work.

[Guest Zokutai]

Hello. I just reinstalled my windows xp professional x64 edition and I have

some quite annoying problems. First one is the Activation. Each time I log on

I get the message saying "xx days left... Activate now..." So I try to click

that message.. and nothing happens.. I've also tried installing Internet

explorer, but it wont get installed.. I just get the error message saying

"restart PC now" .. Nothing seems to work.. I am totally helpless. Please

help :S Thanks in advance.

[Guest Bobby Johnson]

Re: Problems with activation. Cant get IE to work.

 

I would guess that your installation didn't install

properly. Internet Explorer is part of the system, so you

should not have to 'install' it.

 

Probably the best approach is to start over and do a 'full

format' to ensure any residual information is cleaned up. A

'quick' format does not clean the information from the hard

drive. All it does is delete the file and directory

information and leaves any actually information on the hard

drive. If you were having problems before, then a 'quick'

format leaves that 'problem' on your hard drive.

 

 

Zokutai wrote:

> Hello. I just reinstalled my windows xp professional x64 edition and I have

> some quite annoying problems. First one is the Activation. Each time I log on

> I get the message saying "xx days left... Activate now..." So I try to click

> that message.. and nothing happens.. I've also tried installing Internet

> explorer, but it wont get installed.. I just get the error message saying

> "restart PC now" .. Nothing seems to work.. I am totally helpless. Please

> help :S Thanks in advance.

[Guest Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: Problems with activation. Cant get IE to work.

 

You say you just re-installed. How, exactly, did you do that? And why? It

sounds like it didn't successfully complete, and I'm concerned that

something else is going on here.

 

--

Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"Zokutai" <Zokutai@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Hello. I just reinstalled my windows xp professional x64 edition and I

> have

> some quite annoying problems. First one is the Activation. Each time I log

> on

> I get the message saying "xx days left... Activate now..." So I try to

> click

> that message.. and nothing happens.. I've also tried installing Internet

> explorer, but it wont get installed.. I just get the error message saying

> "restart PC now" .. Nothing seems to work.. I am totally helpless. Please

> help :S Thanks in advance.