Re: XP "license problem - error code 0x80004005"

Posted: 08-28-2003, 01:26 AM

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Selina wrote:

> I hope someone can help a relatively new newbie... My
> friend's XP got the MSBlaster. I patched it up but said
> the final thing she needed to do was update her Windows.
> As she has a slow dial up connection, I got advice on opne
> of these Microsoft newsgroups about how I could save the
> Windows Updates she needed onto a CD and then off I went
> earlier to install them for her. In the middle of one
> installation the system crashed so I rebooted the PC and
> it went to a new screen that says "Click on user" - the
> only user there is called "Owner" but when I click on it
> this error message pops up: "A problem is preventing
> Windows from accurately checking the license for this
> computer. Error code 0x800040005." She got her PC brand
> new from a shop with Windows installed already so it is
> hers!!! I cannot get past this screen at all. Please
> help!

Boot into safe mode. Search for the files "wpa.dbl" & "wpa.bak," and
rename them. Reboot into Windows.

If that doesn't work, then you can try to do a repair install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Basically you friend has been screwed by Microsoft Product Activation.
People around here think it's a cool thing, that it's better that people
like your friend get screwed, than Microsoft looses a precious dime to
"fair use."

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Re: XP "license problem - error code 0x80004005"

Posted: 08-28-2003, 03:06 PM

Selina wrote:

> Thanks, will try it! I don't understand the bit about my
> friend getting screwed though - how does the Activation do
> this? She owns her Windows stuff???

MS's copy protection broke, that's how your friend got screwed out of
using her computer.

If there wasn't Product Activation in her Windows XP, there wouldn't be
a license check mechanism to fail.

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Re: XP "license problem - error code 0x80004005"

Posted: 08-30-2003, 08:31 PM

I have the EXACT same problem.

Heading over to work on it now. Will try Boot into safe mode / Search
for the files "wpa.dbl" & "wpa.bak," / rename them / Reboot into
Windows.
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Also found these references:
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Cause: the file pidgen.dll is damaged or the user used tools "Windows
product illegal activation cracking" which damaged the entries of the
register like several files.

Solution: start in Safe mode without network and restore a system of a
date former to the problem.

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Cause: Your method of installing Service Pack 1 is not supported.

Solution: The easiest thing to do would be to rerun the install from
the original pre-SP1 CD, and subsequently run the SP1 install.

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