Urgent: Windows Vista activation problem! (0x8007000D)

...and how does that make you feel..? 

*sorry - our hearts go out to you lilguru as you battle the powers that be ...

(my install did that - but then it magically worked before the deadline.. i think it was the 5308 build  or whatnot)

I'm having the exact same problem, although I have 11 days left to activate.

It's the same situation here: Downloaded from Microsoft, installed and activated on sunday. When I booted it up yesterday, I was asked to activate again. While doing it, the above mentioned error occured.....

If anyone should have a solution, that would be great!

Ergh, maybe this will do something for you?

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=189905

Just Maybe?

http://blogs.microsoft.nl/tonykrijnen/archive/2006/06/19/1795.aspx

But that specific error message I bypassed by reinstalling without "Activate whenever signed on" or whatever the prefrence was in the beginning.

It's a beta-bug.

Fear not, help is at hand. Very soon.

C9 will make a movie filming you for two days how you fight to get Vista activated.

Hey that will be fun...you are getting on C9...can't wait to download the clip.

nah just kidding...I'm on your side, trust me...

littleguru wrote:

This link dit not help at ALL!!!

I did everything as the guy said: Login in safe mode, Enable Administrator, add Administrator to the Welcome screen, logged in as Administrator and tried to activate

SAME ERROR! This is very urgent now. I have 2 days left...

littleguru wrote:

No. But I have no time for this stuff right now. I need to learn, and if I can't activate, I have a problem in two days! I have only one computer, with vista installed!! And I have no time to reinstall all right now... So... Microsoft guys help me out.

Try and activate again and after go into the event log and get all relevant entries, it should list the failed attempt and more information.

Also include your network, server, login, domain, etc setup and generally as much information as you can.

Just a shot in the dark, but do you have Daemon Tools installed?  I know version 3.47 will cause this issue with activation.  If so, the fix is to uninstall and install version 3.33.  You can find older versions on their site if you hunt for them.

If not, it's possible some other program you have installed is causing this issue - try uninstalling software until you can activate (or your activation status changes back to activated).  A pain?  Sure, but it's less of a pain than starting over from scratch, right?

another shot....do you have Symantec/Norton AntiVirus installed and running??? Try uninstalling it and see what goes from there. There is problem with one of the Symantec drivers not being recognized by Vista.

frank

Seconding the Deamon Tools comment

http://help.lockergnome.com/vista/Windows-Activation-Error-0x8007000D-ftopict1083.html

http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth/archive/2006/06/04/450543.aspx

http://www.vistafreaks.com/bug-activation-ftopict623.html

Wow, you just gotta love google.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=vista+beta+0x8007000D

littleguru wrote:



out180 wrote: Wow, you just gotta love google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=vista+beta+0x8007000D

Today is not my day... I woke up at 6 couldn't sleep anymore... after 5 hours. Then Windows complained about not being activated... and I did a search about the error, but did not find anything.