Upgrade to SP 3 get Windows Product Activation error

Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now cant sign
in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
"a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
this computer code 0x80090006"
Any suggestions?

"Error Code: 0x80070002" error message cites license-checking issue after
upgrade on Dell computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q310794

JS

"Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3E32AF8F-982C-4689-A9EB-25FC981A4221@microsoft.com...
> Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now cant
> sign
> in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
> "a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
> this computer code 0x80090006"
> Any suggestions?

This was the only thing I could find, even thought it's not an exact match.

JS

"JS" <@> wrote in message news:u9RyEQ74IHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> "Error Code: 0x80070002" error message cites license-checking issue after
> upgrade on Dell computer:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q310794
>
> JS
>
> "Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3E32AF8F-982C-4689-A9EB-25FC981A4221@microsoft.com...
>> Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now cant
>> sign
>> in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
>> "a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
>> this computer code 0x80090006"
>> Any suggestions?
>
>

This is a store built mini desktop.

"JS" wrote:

> "Error Code: 0x80070002" error message cites license-checking issue after
> upgrade on Dell computer:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q310794
>
> JS
>
> "Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3E32AF8F-982C-4689-A9EB-25FC981A4221@microsoft.com...
> > Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now cant
> > sign
> > in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
> > "a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
> > this computer code 0x80090006"
> > Any suggestions?
>
>
>

This is a store built shuttle machine. 500g hd, 1 g ram p4 2.8 proc.been
running fine on sp2 since released

"JS" wrote:

> "Error Code: 0x80070002" error message cites license-checking issue after
> upgrade on Dell computer:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q310794
>
> JS
>
> "Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3E32AF8F-982C-4689-A9EB-25FC981A4221@microsoft.com...
> > Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now cant
> > sign
> > in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
> > "a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
> > this computer code 0x80090006"
> > Any suggestions?
>
>
>

"Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3E32AF8F-982C-4689-A9EB-25FC981A4221@microsoft.com...
> Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now
> cant sign
> in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
> "a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license
> for
> this computer code 0x80090006"
> Any suggestions?

For the time being, I would uninstall SP3 and use System Restore (going
back to a date just prior to SP3) for good measure.

Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for
Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and
e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.

• US:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/def...3&gprid=522131

• CA:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/def...3&gprid=522131

• UK:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/def...3&gprid=522131

• AU:
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/def...3&gprid=522131

• Other: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/def...spx?gprid=1173 | select
Windows XP | select Windows XP Service Pack 3
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Bill wrote:
> Have been using Win XP Pro since deployed, just did SP3 upgrade now cant
> sign in, get Windows Product Activation screen with following message
> "a problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for
> this computer code 0x80090006"
> Any suggestions?

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>
> Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for
> Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and
> e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.

I have XP Pro, SP2. Any point to upgrading to SP3, when
support will be available only till 4/09? Why upgrade in
view of all the problems some have with SP3?

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:39:53 -0400, Sanford Aranoff
<aranoff@analysis-knowledge.com> wrote:


> I have XP Pro, SP2. Any point to upgrading to SP3, when
> support will be available only till 4/09? Why upgrade in
> view of all the problems some have with SP3?


Whenever everything new comes out, there are always some people with
problems. But in fact, the enormous majority of those who have
upgraded to SP3 have had no problems at all with it,

If you're reading about problems *here*, this where people come with
their problems, not with their successes. You get a very distorted
view of what's going on in the real world here; as someone once said,
"hang around a transmission shop and you will think that all cars have
transmission problems."

Most problems, by far, that people report here--whether or not they
are SP3-related--have nothing to do with defects in the software. They
result from people's ignorance, from bad or inadequate hardware, from
old drivers, from viruses, from spyware, and so on. And except for
very rare situations, they always get a fix for their problems, and in
most cases, that fix is a very simple one to implement.

But read here first: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Sanford Aranoff wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>> Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for
>> Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09. Chat and
>> e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada.
>
> I have XP Pro, SP2. Any point to upgrading to SP3, when
> support will be available only till 4/09? Why upgrade in
> view of all the problems some have with SP3?

In the future, please begin a new thread about your questions/problems.

Repost with emphasis added:
>> Free unlimited **installation and compatibility support** is available
>> for
>> Windows XP, but only for Service Pack 3 (SP3), until 14 Apr-09.

WinXP SP3 will be supported into 2014. Support for WinXP SP2 will end in
2010.

The vast majority of WinXP users have installed SP3 without any issues
whatsoever. Such users tend NOT to post to the newsgroups and forums to
report such successes.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/