Twice now, once on startup and once randomly, I get an error message asking me to activate windows. I have a genuine copy that installed without issue. Were these just hiccups? Or is there a problem? Thanks

"Tophunter" wrote in message news:6546c003-203e-470b-a0af-90de6b9c12d1... Twice now, once on startup and once randomly, I get an error message asking me to activate windows. I have a genuine copy that installed without issue. Were these just hiccups? Or is there a problem? Thanks It's most likely a 'race condition' causing validation to time-out. This is usually temporary, and goes away after a while. If you are concerned, please post an MGADiag report. To properly analyse and solve problems with Activation and Validation, we need to see a full copy of the report produced by the MGADiag tool (download and save to desktop - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012 ) Once saved, run the tool. Click on the Continue button, which will produce the report. To copy the report to your response, click on the Copy button in the tool (ignore any error messages at this point), and then paste (using either r-click/Paste, or Ctrl+V ) into your response. - IN YOUR OWN THREAD, please -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth