I bought my teenaged son a used laptop. I bought windows xp and installed it. He apparently ignored the nag screen that came up reminding him to activate his copy of xp. Now, it has expired and he cannot sign on to the system. Since it won't let him into windows, there is no way to connect to the internet to activate it(at least that's what it looks like). Any way to activate now or am I going to have to reinstall? (I don't want to do that)!
2007-08-05 13:50:50 · 4 answers · asked by blutoadmirer 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
The Internet activation has long Ben disabled. The only way to activate XP is via phone. Theres a tab for that that will give you a toll free number....
2007-08-05 13:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hook the laptop to the internet and follow the activate windows wizard.
2007-08-05 20:54:23 · answer #2 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is what happens in life when you don't deal with those nagging problems. reinstall and register it.
2007-08-05 20:54:28 · answer #3 · answered by D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can also do it over the phone.
2007-08-05 20:55:25 · answer #4 · answered by Yahoo! Answerer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋