What about the clock's Year setting. I frequently run into cases where
events cause the BIOS time to revert to an earlier year setting. ( Most
times it seems to choose 2005, perhaps BIOS creation dating ). You
must have some form of calendar failure for Certificates to fail validation.

"lrh381b2" <lrh381b2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5D032654-24EB-4297-AA3D-23475D90822D@microsoft.com...
> Yes, the time zone is set correctly, I am in North Carolina and the time
> zone
> is set to Eastern time. It is a Dell computer, so I called Dell tech
> support. They told me to hold Ctrl and tap F11 to bring up Dell PC
> Restore,
> which is a program in a separate partition that restores your computer to
> an
> image created at the factory. Is it possible that the PC Restore turned
> back
> the clock in the BIOS? I am also getting certificate errors in IE 6
> saying
> "the certificate has expired or is not yet valid". I have to click "OK" 3
> or
> 4 times for it to go away. Thanks.
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Is your time *zone* correct?
>>
>> cf.
>> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...1bc30aa463&p=1
>>
>> cf.
>> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...d545e79b7df874
>>
>> cf.
>> http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...=en&IsMu=False
>>
>> cf. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326253
>>
>> cf. http://www.updatexp.com/0x80072f8f.html
>> --
>> Windows Update-specific newsgroup:
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....windowsupdate
>>
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
>>
>>
>> lrh381b2 wrote:
>> > Thanks for all the suggestions, I tied everysingle one of them, but
>> > Windows
>> > update still gives me the same error message: "Your computer's date and
>> > time
>> > appear to be out of sync with an update
>> > certificate. To fix this:
>> > 1. In Control Panel, open Date and Time Properties.
>> > 2. Ensure that the date and time are correct.
>> >
>> > Read more about steps you can take to resolve this problem (error
>> > number
>> > 0x80072F8F) yourself."
>> >
>> >
>> > "Detlev Dreyer" wrote:
>> >
>> >> "lrh381b2" <lrh381b2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I think the virus corrupted a critical file in the windows directory,
>> >>> so Windows would not boot. After talking to the help desk for the
>> >>> computer manufacturer, My only choice was to erase the hard drive and
>> >>> make it like a new computer.
>> >>
>> >> This was certainly the best solution in terms of system security.
>> >>
>> >>> Everything works now except for Windows Update.
>> >>
>> >> In addition to PA Bear's reply there are some tools around fixing that
>> >> problem, eg. http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix or
>> >> http://download.mshelper.de/mshregs/winUpdRstre.exe
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> d-d
>>
>>