That happened to me as well. A reboot took care of it. Seems that not all
of the updates finished installing until you reboot or they didn’t take
effect till you reboot. Then the activate thing goes away and you are legit
again.

Just one of those wonderful things that happens with PC's.
--
~Alex T~
..:MVP Windows Shell/User:.

"Retired Bill" <RetiredBill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B100840D-02C8-4FCE-B90C-AB7C4B53D396@microsoft.com...
> I bought this PC (e-machines 3.00GHz dual-core processor, 1 gig ram, Vista
> Home Premium) brand new at Walmart on sale for $600 in September. It was
> fine until I installed SP1.
>
> At any rate, it's no longer a problem. I just re-booted and it went away,
> don't ask why. Microsoft softeware is allways a mystery and a
> challenge........
> --
> Retired Boeing Bill
>
>
> "~Alex~.:MVP Windows Shell/User:." wrote:
>
>> Even more interesting is I have seen reports of this on machines known to
>> have pirated Vista previously and SP1 patched the cracks that were
>> available. So I would be more worried about where you got the PC from
>> and
>> if they are selling pirated software.
>>
>> --
>> ~Alex T~
>> .:MVP Windows Shell/User:.
>>
>> "Jdr" <jdr@world.com> wrote in message
>> news:B11C4233-A598-4901-AFDE-4C3C5FCDC9CC@microsoft.com...
>> > Interesting... which "outsourced centre" came to that conclusion?
>> >
>> >
>> > "Retired Bill" <RetiredBill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:6F9BA816-4379-4BA4-96C7-1C4A58B49356@microsoft.com...
>> >>I just installed Vista SP1 through Windows update, restarted my system
>> >>and
>> >> got errors abour counterfeit software and my copy of windows didn't
>> >> pass??????
>> >> --
>> >> Retired Boeing Bill
>> >
>> >