You'll need to do this during the first time the logo appears after rebooting. Keep tapping F8 until you see the advanced options menu pop up. Use the arrow keys to select Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Starting up your computer in this mode will bypass the Windows activation loop long enough for you to reset the timer for your XP trial. You'll need to wait a minute or so for Safe Mode to load.
Type " explorer. You should see a dialogue window pop up after doing so. You may need to wait for a minute or so before the window comes up. Click Yes. This may also say OK. After doing so, you should notice that your desktop interface is now accessible. This will bring up the Run tool from which you can complete the fix. Type " rundll This command resets the Windows XP trial clock to 30 days. When your welcome screen finishes loading, you should be able to log in like usual rather than being stuck in the activation loop.
You have a certain period of time to activate Windows. After this period, Windows will be stuck on the login screen in an activation loop. Not Helpful 16 Helpful Can I do this more than once? I have already done the 30 days one, a. Step 3. Nothing I do is working this time around. You can only rearm the timer up to four times while in the grace period, or two times in safe mode. Not Helpful 2 Helpful Not Helpful 6 Helpful If you are in safe mode, boot into safe mode with command prompt and type in: explorer.
Technically the operating system is still loaded; its just limited great if you can't load xp. Not Helpful 10 Helpful Microsoft stopped support for Windows XP on April 8, , and it is no longer being updated. If there is a bug, then it will never be fixed. Not Helpful 7 Helpful Not Helpful 3 Helpful It was going fine until I came to activation, which it would not allow in safe mode.
So I restarted, and it said, "Do you want to activate Windows now? Press 'OK' to exit". I pressed OK and it kicked me back to the login screen. Any ideas? You might be able to get out of this loop using the following steps. Not sure if this is a permanent fix or only for 30 days. Start in plain safe mode.
Login using an administrator user account. Run CMD as admin. Type these commands and press Enter. Then click OK on each of the following prompts: regsvr32 regwizc.
Type this last command type exactly as what you see here : rundll Wait for a couple of minutes because the last command will not show anything on the screen.
However, it will reset the licensing components in the background. Then restart your computer and log-on back to your normal Windows. Not Helpful 46 Helpful There are several freeware programs that will dig out your key and display it for you.
Among them are " keyfinder " and " Belarc Advisor ". Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. The choice is yours! Product keys are one of the ways software developers protect their products against piracy. Unfortunately, they're easy to lose, which can be a real problem if you need to reinstall Windows or any other software from scratch. If you've bought a desktop PC or laptop with Windows 10 already installed, you'll probably find its product key on a Certificate of Authenticity sticker on the the case or in the included paperwork, but not if you've built your own PC and installed the operating system yourself.
Many other applications also require product keys if you reinstall them — including Microsoft Office — and if you've lost the email you received when you first installed them, you could be in real trouble later on.
Product key finders only work for software that's already installed, so download one and make a note of all your keys now, so you're prepared in advance. Belarc Advisor is primarily a tool for gathering information about your Windows system, including hardware, security updates and product keys. Whenever you run Belarc Advisor, it automatically checks its database for software definitions — essential for finding keys for new programs.
After that, it scans your system and presents the findings in an HTML page in your default web browser. Scroll down to 'Software licenses' to find serial numbers and product keys for Windows, Office and many other applications. Belarc Advisor offers a wealth of other information, including details of your antivirus software, connected hardware, and other devices on the same network. Belarc Advisor's scans are fast and offer so much more information than just serial numbers, it's our favorite free product key finder.
There are two versions of Abelssoft MyKeyFinder: free and paid-for. LicenseCrawler will find the license key for pretty much any application that has one, and it's free for home use.
Its scan of the Windows registry takes a long time to complete — even if you select the 'high speed' option — but you can limit its scope using the blacklist and whitelist filters. LicenseCrawler is distributed as a portable app, meaning you don't have to install it on the Windows system you're scanning — just download the zip file, extract its contents and run LicenseCrawler.
This is particularly handy if you have several PCs; just download it to a USB stick and you can just plug it in and run it on any of them. The only downside of LicenseCrawler is the occasional pop-up ad, but finding product keys isn't a task you'll be performing every day, so they're only a minor inconvenience. Windows Product Key Viewer is super fast, taking barely a second to scan your system and present the results.
That's because, as the name suggests, it only supplies the product key for your operating system. That shouldn't necessarily put you off though.
Although it doesn't find serial numbers for other applications, it does provide some extra information about your OS, including the registered user, install date and last boot time, and it's compatible with versions of the operating system from Windows 10 all the way back to Windows Take care when downloading the software — the site includes some ads that look like download buttons for the software, but are in fact unrelated. Free PC Audit is another portable application, and doesn't even come as a zip archive — just download the exe file and run it to begin scanning.
Like Belarc Advisor, Free PC Advisor provides a wealth of information about your whole system — not just its software — though its interface isn't quite as intuitive. No matter in which situation you are just press the Yes button, like you are willing to activate your copy of Windows.
A new window like the one below will be shown:. At this point the idea is to get the IE browser opened because the browser has 'an issue' that we are going to exploit it. If your browser is just IE then skip the steps below and go to the 'IE browser opened'. If you are not using IE8 then that command should exploit a weakness of IE7 or earlier which in turn will 'crash the Windows' in that way that it will load the Desktop, the task bar, everything.
Note : for some reasons Windows keeps locking itself every seconds so you won't be able to see the Desktop nor the task bar. Hacking is not always an easy job, isn't it? This trick just helps you to use your Windows copy in these emergency situations; I would not recommend anyone working like this on the daily basis because it could just prove to be a nightmare.
In this situation you are reminded frequently enough that you have only 30 or less days left for activation.
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