That was on the original hardware, so it certainly should be triggered by the new hardware IDs from my VMs. In this article we will show you how to both enable and disable the administrator account in Windows. There are several ways to access the hidden administrator account. When reinstalling XP on that netbook BITD, I had to do the phone thing almost every single time. Home Computing Fiches Windows David Webb 18/02/22 13:53. I'm thinking that they see it's an XP install and just automatically tell the OS that it's been validated. I activated two XP installs earlier today, so the servers are certainly still up.Īctually, considering how fast these activations went and the fact that I used the same OEM key from my old netbook for both, it looks like they're not even checking the key anymore. Once it has done the first 2 or 3 waves, it will have upgraded IE to version 8 and then it should be able to make connection with the update servers. Set Windows to auto-install updates and wait a while (or click the yellow shield in the notifications area once XP has downloaded them so you can install them manually). You simply cannot browse to any website anymore with that browser, even Microsoft's own sites. However IE6 just isn't supported anymore. This happens because XP by default comes with IE6 and relies on IE to do the activation.
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