I must state from the beginning that this article is not about cracking activation engine because we don't want to break our Windows EULA, do we? This article tries to show you ways to bypass Windows XP product activation for those emergency situations. I will explain in details below. Let's suppose that you have a licensed copy of an Windows XP but lately you have installed-activated/uninstalled it for several times. At some point the Microsoft Activation Server just get bored and says 'OK, if you want me to activate your license then please pick up the phone and call me!' What if you get bored (or you are just lazy) to call Microsoft and to justify yourself and to ask them 'Please, can you activate the copy that I bought legally? Yes, I have an invoice, in fact I have 10 invoices because it happens that I bought more copies than I'm using right now. No, I'm not a software theft, I cross my heart and hope to die!' Well, in that situation (let me make myself clear: when you both have the legal right to use that piece of software and you don't break the EULA) you could just try to exploit one of the Windows XP weaknesses. In fact you could try to exploit more than one, I'm sure about that (someone might think that I did it in the past; maybe they're right). You could find yourself in one of the following situations: • the 30 days has expired so you cannot access the Desktop anymore • you are within those 30 days time limit but you want to get rid of this issue Your 30 days has expired So you've got a message like the one below. Let's activate Windows - click WinKey+u By pressing simultaneous ' key' and 'u' (WinKey+u) you will open a window called 'Microsoft narrator' where you can click on some hyperlink called 'Microsoft web site' which in turn will open your default web browser (hopefully IE otherwise it works but with one more step; we get to this soon). (We also have instructions on how to change the Windows activation key in Windows 7 and Windows Vista.) Double-click My Computer. Double-click on the 'C' drive. Go to the C: Windows System32 folder. (You may have to click on the link that says 'Show The contents of this folder.' ) Find the files 'wpa.dbl' and 'wpa.bak' and copy them to a. Mar 08, 2012 Snorg asked the Answer Line forum if Microsoft will activate new Windows XP installations after the company stops supporting the operating system. Sep 22, 2016. Windows Activation, introduced in Windows XP, checks in with Microsoft when you install Windows or get a new Windows PC. This is an anti-piracy feature — it's designed to annoy you if you're using a non-genuine copy of Windows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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