Re: XP pro register licence afetr 90 days - loops on xp login

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"simongostick" wrote:

| My friend has reloaded his xp pro computer. Typical of him not to register 
| XP. I beleave it was installed either 30 or 90 days ago and the registration 
| time out has activated. Whenever he logs in to xp he gets a warning message 
| "xp has not been registered. Would you like to register now?" If he clicks 
| yes, the screen asks you to login in to xp again. If you click no or cancel 
| (forgotton the wording) the pc loops back to asking for the xp login again. 
| Each time he logs in as the administrator. The pc will boot into safe mode 
| but he can't access the internet to register xp as the system cant connect to 
| the internet, due to either software or hardware drivers not being loaded in 
| safe mode. Apart form a full clean xp reload, how can we get his pc 
| registered? bye
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