Hi,

I recently tried to stop a program through the task manager in windows XP
and I get a message that say's that the task manager has been disabled by
the administrator which is me though I did not not do this. I am wondering
how to enable it again, can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

But then says "Windows already activated" and then reboots. To infinity.

I replaced the hard drive on my laptop recently and did a completely clean
install of XP SP2. The XP disk is the one that came from the manufacturer,
has the key already imbedded so you don't have to enter it manually, I guess
making it harder to mess up the entry, and this is the only computer that
key is used on. Obviously, it has been activated before, the first time it
was installed on this laptop. Has not been activated since. Well, until
now.

I couldn't get it to activate via the internet. And I have been way busy
with traveling for work, so it wasn't until the 30 day grace period was over
and it forced me to address the issue that I did anything.

Tried again to activate via the internet, with no success.

I generated an installation ID, and used the phone method. The tech support
guy couldn't get the installation ID to verify, so he had me generate a new
one. The new one worked, he read me the activation code, I entered it, I hit
next, and everything was great.

I am trying to use the system restore program and it keeps telling me that
it cannot restore my computer to this date. I have used it before and have
had no problems. anyone else run into this and if so, what have to done to
correct it?