I have a friend who bought a laptop at a flea market....we installed Free AVG 7.5 on it then we updated to the newest version when it came out. He kept getting the windows update notice but could not update because his XP could not be validated....go figure! Anyway he decided to go ahead and order the XP with microsoft so he could be legit and update his laptop........... Now AVG 8 wont recognize the validated XP .......I cant use the uninstall from the program menu......I cannot go to add/remove to uninstall Avg ........I get an error............I even tried to uninstall in Safe Mode...NO GO. I tried to reinstall over it to see if that fixed the error...still have the problem...I dont have the exact error as I am on my pc now but can get it later today. I went and did a search for uninstalling avg...and got a forum and printed out what they suggested..........which was this: please download the latest AVG installation installation file from the Download section of our website this page brings you to Free AVG set up exe....but I did find a file there but have NO IDEA what to do with it...its an f8all138vd.bin file any suggestion PLEASE! --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe 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/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------