vdub12
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I had a problem today with a fresh install of Windows Vista not excepting the product key from the COA on the system.
The problem was caused by a corrupted hardware token. Here is the fix for anyone else that might run in to this problem.
From the command prompt as administrator type the following commands.
1. net stop slsvc
2. cd %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\appdata\roaming\microsoft\softwarelicensing
3. rename tokens.dat tokens.bar
4. cd %windir%\system32
5. net start slsvc
6. cscript slmgr.vbs -rilc
7. slmgr -rearm
8. Restart the computer 3 times (You will get an activation error. Just cancel it and continue restarting 3 times total.)
9. Attempt to activate again using the same product key
Hopefully this will work with many of the activation problems that Windows Vista seams to have. The tech I talked to at Microsoft thinks that these problems might be due to using an older OEM copy of Vista to install with. I am currently burning a Windows Vista SP2 disk, hopefully that will solve my problems in the future.
Any way hope this helps someone.
The problem was caused by a corrupted hardware token. Here is the fix for anyone else that might run in to this problem.
From the command prompt as administrator type the following commands.
1. net stop slsvc
2. cd %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\appdata\roaming\microsoft\softwarelicensing
3. rename tokens.dat tokens.bar
4. cd %windir%\system32
5. net start slsvc
6. cscript slmgr.vbs -rilc
7. slmgr -rearm
8. Restart the computer 3 times (You will get an activation error. Just cancel it and continue restarting 3 times total.)
9. Attempt to activate again using the same product key
Hopefully this will work with many of the activation problems that Windows Vista seams to have. The tech I talked to at Microsoft thinks that these problems might be due to using an older OEM copy of Vista to install with. I am currently burning a Windows Vista SP2 disk, hopefully that will solve my problems in the future.
Any way hope this helps someone.
