On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:01:01 -0700, WayneG
<WayneG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a customer whose web browser showed no version or security
>information. Upgrading to IE8 did not fix reinstalling SP3 did not fix
>either!
>
>So I did a repair install of XP home with SP3 now I get the error message
>a problem has prevented windows from accurately checking the status of the
>license for this computer..............Do you want to activate windows now
>yes or no
>
>if you say yes it hangs and does nothing say no and it logs you off!
>
>I can get into safe mode but can't get the network to work! Oddly enough
>one time when I logged off it installed 24 updates! So it can go out to the
>internet just not when I am logged on!

Is the browser IE ; is it a pirate copy ?