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I call the get a live person on the other end.. I get my new activation.. I get to the prod key install.. In reply to komodo47's post on January 23, Komodo, I think as far as I am sure of it haven't got the full answer yet but I did another repair on the computer this time without the sound car or network plugged in. On this time I got no reboot at "installing devices although it did ask for the drivers for yeh VGA adapter.

Thought nothing of it and clicked cancel and continued. I will have to try and find the motherboard model and find the drivers for an install while doing repair. I have also tried to create a new user in safe mode before the activation errors Bit with no luck I get stick at the same point. No desktop. No icons. Well bizzarre. Thing is if this is going to happen after using boot and nuke then it's a pointless and endless task. If you figure out a way of a fix please reply.

John Original above. Using a retail version of XP pro with sp3 integrated in it. Went to reboot, and was told needed to activate this copy of XP. Said ok, then hung at main screen. Thanks again microsquish Hi there i get the same proble describ on the topic but all the answers are not possible two options on the screen for asking activation you must activate windows before continuing "YES" "NO" IF select "YES" then no registration windows only wallpaper and it doesn't load windows IF sectect "NO" it restart tol user switch windows and if you try to go in safe mode whit or whtiwout network it say that can not activate in safe mode and back to square 1 if anyone no a diferent solution please say something.

In reply to AntonioMendes's post on January 17, I know this thread is quite old, but in case anyone else google's this and finds their way here as I did, here is the fix.

Install IE8 from a flash drive - reboot, login - wait a few and the activation process will come up. In reply to DerekNoll's post on November 6, This worked. Encrypt and password-protect files with Encryptability encryption software for Windows 11,10,8.

User rating: 4. Read more If you want to follow along, you may want to install our AB Commander first. It's free for the first 30 days, you can always uninstall it later on if you find no other use for it.

You can certainly do the following without AB Commander, too. Also, if you have not done so already, you may need to enable the Windows option that makes the hidden files visible. When the Folder Options window is displayed, select the View tab and enable the "Show hidden files, folders, and drives" option:. While you are changing the folder options, you may also want to clear the option "Hide extensions for known file types": seeing the file extensions should make it easier to recognize the files that we will encounter along the way.

Don't worry, if you don't like these changes, you can always change them back when you are done. With that out of the way, let's navigate to the folder where Windows keeps the iconcache. Yes, the IconCache. How do we know?

Simple: under Windows 7 and earlier, if you delete this file as described in our previous article , Windows will rebuild it next time it needs to show the icons, and repair any damaged or missing icons.

However, if you do this with Windows 8 or 10, there is no effect on the icons, and if you had any wrong icons displayed on the desktop, they would still be wrong.

After looking around a bit, we've solved the mystery. Again, replace [User] with the actual login name of your user account, which is Admin in our example. In that folder, you should find quite a few files which names begin with iconcache , such as:. Take control of your files and folders with AB Commander file manager for Windows 11, 10, 8.

That's the files where Windows 8 and 8. If you scroll down, you should see another group of files with names starting with thumbcache :. Tiger Petting Zoo. App Development Process. Easy Coleslaw Recipe. El Torito Grill Irvine Ca.

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