Re: XP Pro Activation After Windows Update - Error Code 0x8004050a
- From: Flash999 <Flash999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 03:55:04 -0700
Now stuck with a working computer as long as :
1. Start the activation, go all the way through the process and don't hit
finish or else get Problem with Activtion Error : 0x8004050a
2. Leave the IE7 window open also or I get a memory read error for Svchost.exe
All this from doing a multiple item windows update. What a joke !!!!!!!!!!
MS more like US(less)
"Flash999" wrote:
I don't know how to cross-post and the page you directed me to is blocked by.
the proxy server at work.
Anyway - the important part is that I have managed to find a way round no
getting into my desktop.
During the activation window:
1. Press Windows Key + U (Windows Narrator will appear)
2. Clink on the link to Microsoft Website (which starts the newly installed
IE7 and gives me access to internet)
3. Type in c:\ in IE7 address bar and you can access the desktop & programs
from here.
4. Now I've only to get rid of the error code or restore
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Asked/Answered in Windows Update newsgroup. If you must make identical
posts to multiple newsgroups, please cross-post one (1) message to all of
them. Thank you.
Multiposting vs Crossposting:
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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Flash999 wrote:
After connecting to windows update the other evening and downloading WGA &
IE7 along with other updates my computer asked me to activate windows when
it re-started.
It could not connect to the internet now for some reason so I used
telephone
activation.
I then typed in the activation code and the computer returned error code:
Problem with Windows Activation : Error Code 0x8004050a and computer logs
me
out.
Please don't give me the following advice :
1. Contact MS - As I've got a support number and they have pointed me here
or KB.
2. Try starting in safe mode - I've tried that but it still asks for
activation
3. Re-Installing XP Pro - For some reason it will not start my XP Pro disk
even with the 1st boot device set to CD-ROM. It does start up my old
laptops
XP Home Edition disk thus allowing me to go into Restore but even though I
did create a restore point prior to updating cannot get rstrui.exe to run.
4. Try posting on WGA forum - They claim the problem is nothing to do with
them. Although there are similar posts going back 10 months there.
5. Try posting in IE7 forum - same as answer 4 above.
6. Tell me to install XP Home then run the XP Pro as I've acquired mutiple
devices since buying this laptop 5 years ago and don't want to re-load all
the drivers.
7. My copy of windows XP Pro is genuine. I do have a COE.
8. The computer had been running quite happily for the last 5 years before
this set of updates.
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