Visit
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/ and click "Validate Windows"
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Andre
Blog:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Kevin" <Kevin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:203F77C4-1AC7-4B38-A1FC-2FDD47351061@xxxxxx
Quote:
>I just bought my laptop yesterday, and installed AIM, and Mozilla Firefox
>on
> it (have gotten used to using Firefox over IE6/7). I constantly get these
> messages that my Vista version may be a rip off. I downloaded the
> validation
> software, but still no luck. Could this be due to me using Mozilla? I
> currently can't even access the Control Panel. It pops up for a second
> but
> disappears instantaneously, so I can't even remove Mozilla in order to see
> if
> that's really the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!