Hi,
I am having a stupid problem that is really making my life hard. Me and my team are trying to release a Computer game tonight and my computer holds allthe source code!! Anyways here's the situation I had Windows XP Home Edition for like a year, and today of all days decided to upgrade to Windows XP Professional and it was going fine until I got to the login screen. After I tried to type in my password I got this error: A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. ERROR 0x80004005. If anyone could please help me out it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!
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Jump to PostDon't have an answer just a comment ,when upgrading you allways backup important data ,you did this right ,giving that you had lots of important data on you PC .
Jump to PostDo you still need an answer to this problem FROM 12 YEARS AGO? Are you saying you haven't been able to upgrade to XP Pro and still need help doing so? Really?
Jump to PostIs/was the copy of XP a legit one or a pirated/cracked jobby?
Surely Microsoft has now made available legit XP downloads and legit product keys now?
Regarding getting files, you can also boot up any Linux Live Boot CD/DVD and bypass Windows altogether and retrieve the files in …
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Fixing XP feels like me fixing a LADA Nova.
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