Windows 3 Day Reactivation !

Well i added a 128 mb ram stick in adition to my current 256 mb stick , but noe every time i start windows it says that i have to rectivate within 3 days but when i click on yes , the activation window (the one that comes on first activation) appears n it says that windows is already activates . please help

Y

Please provide more details about which Windows you have and if possible give a screenshot of the prompt for reactivation....

man it's obviously WinXP , n there's nothin you can do with screenshot , but i'll give them on next reboot

Do this:

1.) Open regedit and goto:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\wpaevents

2.) In right-side pane, change at least one digit of the value OOBETimer, it'll deactivate windows.

3.) Now give following command in RUN:

%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a

And activate it without any problem

thnx vishal , it worked like a charm .

i knew there was a registry trick to force reactivation but couldn't find it .

Thanks once again

B

now since your Windows is activated, it is recomended that u backup your activation file. It's WPA.dbl found in \WINDOWS\system32\ folder, back it up. Then the next time u install Windows, just paste it back in system32 folder in safe mode.

This will work as long as u don't add a new hardware, U don't even need to go online

Zeeshan Quireshi said:
thnx vishal , it worked like a charm .

i knew there was a registry trick to force reactivation but couldn't find it .

Thanks once again

I'm glad that I could serve u

brutality9k said:
now since your Windows is activated, it is recommended that u backup your activation file. It's WPA.dbl found in \WINDOWS\system32\ folder, back it up. Then the next time u install Windows, just paste it back in system32 folder in safe mode.

This will work as long as u don't add a new hardware, U don't even need to go online

i think there's one more file other than WPA.dbl to backup , correct me if i'm wrong .

Yeah! Wpa.dbl & Wpa.bak