Problems with activation. Cant get IE to work.

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.