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by fictitious_boy26

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Just a quick question about XP, I recently installed, and activated XP on my home system. Ran the O/S for less than a week when I ran into a logon problem. As my profile is loading my o/s loggs me out. I've tried every possible way of logging in with out any success. I don't want to re-install and activate again seeing I am limited to the amount of activations. The guest account has also been disabled. ?? what to do ? Im tempted to revert to 2000 pro.

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by phil.hall

As the computer is rebooting, select to go to the startup menu (F8, I believe), and select Last Known Good Configuration. If that fails, you can via the console use System Restore to get back to previous settings, if you made a system restore point,that is.

by thechas

You can also boot from the Cd and do a repair installation.

Microsoft is being fairly liberal on activating re-installs.
At worst, you have to call and speak with an activation specialist.

Chas

by pschuvie

Actually this would be a prime example of the confusion that product activation has generated.

The reinstallation of a legitimate license copy on the same equipment will occur as many times as you would want it to and since there would be no hardware change involved no additional activation would be required.

Even in the event of wiping the disk and doing a clean install, there would only be the same process as the original install - i.e. internet activation. Only in the rarest instance would PA require calling the center, and then since all things are normal/legit no limits would apply.

The key aspect of PA has always been based on putting one copy on MANY machines without MS getting their due.

Also the fact that the install was less than one week old the consideratios would be very forgiving even by hard core MS.

Reload it and see if it clears things up.

by cbach1997

I got this exact problem with Windows 2000 Pro once. I had stuck another hard drive in the computer to copy large files over and the drive lettering changed without me noticing. I think the page file or allocation percentage moved with it and screwed everything up. The only way it would work was with the temp drive in it. I didn't feel like giving it much time so I just restored the OS from an image I had...

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