I made a thorough explanation in meta here. EDIT3 : please be aware that running an outdated OS without security updates poses security risks explained here as BurceWayne points out correctly. However in some cases it's not an option to change to a different OS, e. I found two solutions, both of them work offline, so you don't have to connect the WinXP system to a network although I have to use WinXP I try to minimize security risks :.
Calling the current MS activation number for a product still in support e. This is my preferred one since you don't have to tamper with the system. This will disable the activation requirement for good, but might cause issues although I haven't found any yet source. I managed to activate an XP license key using this link that I got off of a Microsoft support forum.
I don't know how long this link will stay active, but as at posting date it still works. The link that I posted is not on the Microsoft site, but to the best of my knowledge it is what Microsoft uses for activation. It is referred to as Microsoft's "Self Service for Mobile". This link just allows you to manually activate the the installation.
So you select activate via phone option, then your XP box activation screen will give you a set of numbers. You enter these numbers into the site and the site gives you the response numbers to enter into the XP installation that you are needing to activate.
Then you click on "next" and the activation completes. So there is no way that this could contain malware or virus's because nothing is installed or run on the box that you are activating, unlike the other options listed here that involve running scripts to by-pass the activation process. I am just giving my experience here; I had a box belonging to a friend of mine that somehow got into an activation loop even though it had previously been activated for years , and I got the PC activated using the link.
And I did so by following the standard Microsoft activation screens. I also gave the link to the Microsoft forum where I found this link, but, yes, disclaimer: use at your own discretion.
After two days of trying to figure out why almost everything Internet-related was not working browsing, windows update, activation , it turns out the date was wrong and set to This apparently includes windows activation. So, try this. Due to the limit size 3. As part of the call, they provided me with an online activation link, which allowed me to activate my copy online. After providing the link, I was instructed to hang up the call. I was able to enter the information from the activation dialog into the online form, and enter the resulting activation code into the activation dialog.
This successfully activated my installation Windows XP. Presumably you could pay for a 2-minute long international call to the United States to generate your unique activation link, and then hang up and perform the rest of the activation online. I'm not advocating piracy but the truth is, no one cares about this era antique anymore, so most likely you'll find any working solution satisfactory. In fact the last time I had to touch Windows XP was preparing for labs of an archaeological course where we're taught about assembly Intel Microprocessors , and I just applied a random solution that I found online to activate the Windows XP in my virtual machine.
In fact Windows XP uses offline activation, and its verification algorithm has long been leaked, which means anyone can generate an infinite amount of valid keys and get along with them.
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Ask Question. Asked 1 year, 11 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Right-click Wpa. Verify that the Allow check box for Full Control is selected. Also, In Windows XP Professional, the Security tab appears only when the Use the simple file sharing recommended check box in the Folder Options dialog box is not selected. Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Edit: Things may have changed since the last clean install I did. If you are not going to connect to the internet then I would not think you would need security updates. If you are going to connect to the internet which I do not advise and the above does not get you updates then another way around this is to install Qihoo Total Security.
It will only take a short time before you are offered a ton of updates. I have done this on an XP computer. If you do not like Qihoo then uninstall after the patch download and install.
Posted 05 July - PM. I installed IE8 and the update, and also the latest update agent, but same result. The Genuine Windows Validation checker webpage no longer exists, so there is no way to proceed because it can't check, and patch Legitcheckcontrol. Posted 10 July - PM. Most of my machines are XP: I activate by phone only. It's a bit of PITA but it does work. If you need to activate an older version of Office the number that works is this is a very different number that pop up on your software BTW, but right now the old number for XP still works for validating: I don't have that one handy.
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