Error 0x80070002

[TechGuy71]

Well this is a new one for me...

Windows Product Activation
A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for the computer. Error Code: 0x80070002

Happened after i ran a SFC /scannow on an XP system that was having an intermittent restart issue

I read a fix for this from microsoft's site to delete
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography\Providers
but those keys don't exist

Also looked in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices to set the drive letter but it looked ok to me

Also read another post saying to register the following dll's
regsvr32 licwmi.dll
regsvr32 regwizc.dll
regsvr32 licdll.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 softpub.dll
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
regsvr32 initpki.dll
regsvr32 dssenh.dll
regsvr32 rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 sccbase.dll
regsvr32 slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll

They all registered successfully but that didn't make a difference.

Any ideas why SFC would break Windows?? I had previously run malware and virus scans and all were clean, so that doesnt seem to be an issue.

 

[PaulJD]

You could analyse what SFC changed and see if you can get copies from a disk or recovery partition?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228/en-us

 

[OnSiteSolutions]

I bet it was a pirated OS with an activation cracker and SFC botched it.
Activation crack probably replaced a stock system file.

 

[TechGuy71]

I bet it was a pirated OS with an activation cracker and SFC botched it.
Activation crack probably replaced a stock system file.

Well it wasn't a pirated OS. It's actually a system I built them a few years ago, and has a normal XP Pro OEM install.

 

[TechGuy71]

You could analyse what SFC changed and see if you can get copies from a disk or recovery partition?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228/en-us

This seems to be a feature in Vista, and not offered by SFC in XP.