Windows Reactivation?

[hoppy]

Hi all, I wonder if anyone could help, I keep getting a window product activation message everytime I start up windows XP Home, asking/telling me to reactivate windows, it started 4 days ago, saying, 3 days left, 2 days, 1 day. I registered when I first bought the machine new nearly 2 years ago, so why is it asking me to do it again after nearly 2 years,? its puzzling me. will my puter stop operating if I dont do anything.

The other thing thats puzzling is, when I have filled my details in, it goes on to tell me to insert certain tel Nos which are of the european and american type, with prefix codes in the end I just abort and click on remind me later

 

Heres some pics I took of the prob, hope you can see them...best I could do with my camera.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers Hoppy

[hoppy]

OK Fellas, got it sorted now ok, there were more options in the popup windows, and went through the web to reactivate without special phone numbers, and a pop up answered and confirmed that my windows xp home had been reactivated.

Now....I dont know why this happened, the only clue I got was in one of the messages that said, .....Due to changes in your systems hardware etc etc, you need to reactivate Windows? Anybody else had this message? puzzling....cheers....hoppy

[jimpy0]

i know you say now sorted but i think you will find it came up because you recently upgraded via windows update or ran the sp2 add on

[SandTiger]

Just crossed to Linux and painless so far - If only I could remember the login?

[Steve Walker]

OK Fellas, got it sorted now ok, there were more options in the popup windows, and went through the web to reactivate without special phone numbers, and a pop up answered and confirmed that my windows xp home had been reactivated.

Now....I dont know why this happened, the only clue I got was in one of the messages that said, .....Due to changes in your systems hardware etc etc, you need to reactivate Windows? Anybody else had this message? puzzling....cheers....hoppy

 

Recently made any major hardware changes to the PC?

[hoppy]

Sorry Ste for the late reply, been away a few days.

I didnt make any hardware changes or added any, software maybe for the hardware I've already got, I'm always adding updates to my computer from bonafide websites, but Ive been doing that for years, so it puzzles me, why I should get the message up on my screen, unless its a new alert thingy from bill gates?

[jimpy0]

was tagged into recent updates by microsoft to combat illegal copies of windows