Hey there, first time here. I found this forum very usefull. I was in the same situation.
Had to re-format and everything was fine, then all of the sudden, the Activation loop. So to get around this, get the WPA Kill software from the net. It comes with instructions. But basically if you are locked out, log into XP in safe mode if you can still get on the internet, you are golden. Torrent La Maison Du Bonheur Toulon.
If not get it from someone on disk. Basically all you do is run this program and it takes out the WPA registraion out of the registry. Hope this helps. For the love of $#%^$#^$##&&%$, all those supposed cracks don't work! Here are the 2 easiest ways to get Xp activated! 1) Got to a torrent site like torrentz.com or torrentreactor.com do a search fow 'Windows XP Corporate Edition', download, get key, burn, install and done with no activation.
2) If you were dumb enough to give $400 or so to Bill Gate$ and his cronies or burnt Xp Home or an OEM or regular retail copy of Xp, go to and download the patch from there. THIS IS THE ONLY PATCH THAT WILL PERMANTLEY ACTIVATE WINDOWS XP WITHOUT ANY B/S IN THE FUTURE. THIS IS MORE CLEVER THAN OTHER PATCHES AND WILL FIX IT, NOT DELAY IT. To give u an idea on how it works, Windows processes a file on startup called 'winlogon. Er Diagram Question And Solution Pdf Viewer here. exe' which amongst other things performs an activation check to make sure that u have activated or how many days u have left.
When u boot into safe mode, 'winlogon.exe' is prevented from performing the activation check by the windows kernel. This patch trick winlogon.exe into thinking it is running in safe mode, even when it's in Normal mode. If u run the windows activation app, (Go start>run>%systemroot system32 oobe msoobe. Ashton Ct150 Chromatic Tuner Manual Treadmill on this page. exe /a, or on some systems upgraded from windoze 2000 (2k) or NT Workstation 4.0 c: WINNT system32 oobe msoobe.exe /a ) windoze appears to be activated, it even says so itslef. This is not one of those tricks that merely delays the activation process.