SP2 has many critical updates built-in, but unfortunately you need to validate for SP2 to take. Wish I could help on that. Any way of contacting the person who put it on there? ---Troth -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of CINDRA4@xxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 4:27 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows XP Well yes I knew the short answer LOL And the person that did this to the computer was not asked to and I had no idea that's what they were doing. As for installing critical updates I cannot get it to even do that as far as I can tell. And it would not do a SP2 but is that one considered critical? C In a message dated 8/22/2005 1:00:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, sirtroth@xxxxxxxxx writes: > > > Well... the short answer is to purchase a valid copy from MS. Apparently, > whoever installed Windows for you didn't install a valid copy. If it was a > friend or relative, well then there's not much you can do other than > complain to them and let them figure it out. However, if you bought the > computer from someone and this is the copy they put on there for you, you > have a valid cause of complaint against them, and you can threaten them by > telling them you'll report them to MS if they don't give you a valid copy of > the operating system. > > Other than that, keep in mind that Microsoft WILL still allow you to > download and install critical and security updates. It's the non-critical > and non-security topic updates that you won't be able to get. > > Unfortunately, due to the group's legitimacy and rules, we can't discuss > bypassing the MS validation. But, the pirates out there have already > bypassed this form of anti-piracy method by MS. > > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/