Wrong, not one of those things that happen on PC's, one of those things that
happen with Microsoft products !
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Retired Boeing Bill


"~Alex~.:MVP Windows Shell/User:." wrote:

> 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
> >> >
> >> >