Fixing Plus! DME's Activation Wizard
Adam
so forgive me if it has, but I've did a lot of work on
trying to fix the problems with the Plus! activation
wizard and there are two things that can cause the
problem that I know of.
If you are having problems running activation Plus!
because of a permissions error, then try this.
Login to Windows as Administrator or another member of
the Administrators group. Open regedit.exe from the run
command, and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Plus!
\Plus! Digital Media Edition\
Right click on that key and go to permissions. Grant
both Administrator and System full access to those keys.
Now in explorer navigate to
%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Plus!
Digital Media Edition\data\
Again, grant System and Administrator full access to this
folder and any files under it. You may need to go into
Control Panel\Folder Options and uncheck use simple file
sharing to grant permissions on files and folders.
I'm not sure why the ACL's aren't being properly set when
Plus is installed, but if either Administrator or System
can't access the reg keys and files in read / write mode,
it will assume that you aren't logged in with high enough
privs to activate with MS. The problem seems widespread
enough that I would possibly think it was a bug in
Plus!'s installer that's being triggered by a setting
somewhere on the machines' configs.
Again, I apologize if this has already been posted as I
don't have time to read through all of the threads right
now, but this *should* fix most, if not all, of the Plus
activation problems.
Adam
riggits
I think Microsoft needs to get the message that they're doing more damage to regular users than they are to "pirates" - case in point, I have WinXP Pro (normal) and a warez XP Pro, and I only have it installed on one machine. Why use the warez version? Cuz I haven't had the stupid product activation sh*t on my head when I'm working on a report and don't have access to the internet nor time to phone those idiot techs in Redmond.
Don't just change file permissions.. really and truly FIX the problem! Crack that sh*t. It's the only sure solution.
>-----Original Message-----
>Another thought on this.....
>
>What's the possibility of people having activation problems after install
>having use simple file sharing cut off before they install, which gives them
>access to edit ACL's, and either they or a program modified the ACL on the
>all users profile or microsoft (sub) folder? I've had this problem a few
>times, and it only happened when I had simple file sharing disabled.
>
>I think it's probably the file more likely than the registry keys, because
>no matter what is going on systemwise unless a registry util has the
>registry in use at the time of install registry key perms should be set
>correctly regardless of file system.
>
>I've attached a zip file here that uses setacl and regdacl with a batch file
>called fixdme.bat that should set proper permissions on the file, directory,
>and registry keys for you if you're having problems. Extract all three
>files in the zip to the same folder and run fixdme.bat and it should work
>after that.
>
>
>
john86441
Adam, You're brilliant! Your "fixdme.zip" file solution
allowed me to activate Plus! DME. Thanks, john86441
>
>
Adam
> allowed me to activate Plus! DME. Thanks, john86441
> >
> >
thanks :)
BASE NL
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> > Adam, You're brilliant! Your "fixdme.zip" file solution
> > allowed me to activate Plus! DME. Thanks, john86441
> > >
> > >
>
> thanks :)
Is anybody able to send me the file fixdme.zip and instructions?
THANKS!
Tony Rahman [MSFT]
Please try the following steps:
1. From the Start menu, select "Run...". Type "regedit.exe" and press
enter
2. From the tree view of registry keys on the left hand pane, right-click
on "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" and select "Permissions..."
3. By default, Adminstrators should be listed with "Full Control" and
"Read" having their respective "Allow" checkboxes checked.
3a. If they are not checked, check them and click OK.
4. By default, Users should be listed with "Read" having it's "Allow"
checkbox checked.
4a. If it is not checked, check Allow and click OK.
5. Try launching a feature such as Plus! Audio Converter now. If this
fixed the issue, you should see a different product activation screen.
Some questions you might be able to answer to help us narrow this down:
- Do you have network File Sharing enabled at all on your machine?
- Did or do you run any applications that may have caused file sharing
changes (such as virus protection software, security applications, system
optimizers?)
- Was this a fresh install of Windows XP or an upgrade from a previous
version of Windows?
- Tony [MSFT]
This information is provided as-is without warranties and confers no rights.
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