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can someone help.. My inlaw has a problem when starting windows it goes to
the welcome screen and thena message comes up stating that windows needs to
be activated do you want to continue . I click yes and it stays on the
welcome screen.
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Maybe the %systemroot%\System32\WPA.DBL file is corrupted? Go into Safe Mode,
delete it (make sure to back it up somewhere), then reboot and try activation
again.
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"gus5052" wrote:
> can someone help.. My inlaw has a problem when starting windows it goes to
> the welcome screen and thena message comes up stating that windows needs to
> be activated do you want to continue . I click yes and it stays on the
> welcome screen.
>
> any ideas would be grateful
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Did he ever Activate?
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"gus5052" <gus5052@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4324FF95-79D7-49FF-90DC-4F8EFFE32366@microsoft.com...
> can someone help.. My inlaw has a problem when starting windows it goes to
> the welcome screen and thena message comes up stating that windows needs to
> be activated do you want to continue . I click yes and it stays on the
> welcome screen.
>
> any ideas would be grateful