80224 error message

Because my computer gets hacked a lot despite the fact that I have good
firewalls and spyware protection (hacking from competitors developing similar
software), I have known no more effective option than to repeatedly
re-install Windows XP. A big hassle, but it worked .... UNTIL I get the
80224 error message (and why so often when I search for the error numbers,
the knowledge base doesn't contain them?)
NOW, I reach a MS support person on the phone and they tell me I have
installed WXP too many times and so I must be using it on several computers.
Not so. But then I have to retrieve an additional long code to enter to
install WXP again.
The way I see it, Microsoft should provide for a level of security to
prevent the hacking in the first place, and then should not put me through
even more inconvenience after I have been attacked by the weird hackers.

Does anyone know what the 80224 error message means?

Why don't you learn how to image a system , and restore the images - it's a
lot quicker than reinstalling!

http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B80224
*may* be relevant, if you're using FAT32

When exactly does this error message appear? - and what's the rest of
it??....and what is the relevance of this to Windows Updates??
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"Blake" <> wrote in message
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> Because my computer gets hacked a lot despite the fact that I have good
> firewalls and spyware protection (hacking from competitors developing
> similar
> software), I have known no more effective option than to repeatedly
> re-install Windows XP. A big hassle, but it worked .... UNTIL I get the
> 80224 error message (and why so often when I search for the error numbers,
> the knowledge base doesn't contain them?)
> NOW, I reach a MS support person on the phone and they tell me I have
> installed WXP too many times and so I must be using it on several
> computers.
> Not so. But then I have to retrieve an additional long code to enter to
> install WXP again.
> The way I see it, Microsoft should provide for a level of security to
> prevent the hacking in the first place, and then should not put me through
> even more inconvenience after I have been attacked by the weird hackers.
>
> Does anyone know what the 80224 error message means?
>