Authentication issue

I have a FULL version of Windows XP (SP1) which i bought Sealed. I have the
product infront of me (I also have SP2 which I was sent from Microsoft). ALL
have been installed as and when. I built my system about a year ago (give or
take a few months). Now I have had no issues and I have been getting updates,
no issues etc...

However, I bought Fable:Lost chapters... The game will simply not work, so i
decided to do a check on the Microsoft sight etc.. and decided to make sure
there where no product updates that might help resolve the issue... However,
The Update site aksed me to validate my windows, which i did and it said my
windows is not authenticated/valid........ I own two PCs one of which came
with windows (dare i say PCWorld ???).. this one, my own custom gaming
machine.. I have NOT installed my windows on any other system... Please what
do I do??

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pages to request assistance directly from Microsoft:
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Jeff" wrote:

| I have a FULL version of Windows XP (SP1) which i bought Sealed. I have the
| product infront of me (I also have SP2 which I was sent from Microsoft). ALL
| have been installed as and when. I built my system about a year ago (give or
| take a few months). Now I have had no issues and I have been getting updates,
| no issues etc...
|
| However, I bought Fable:Lost chapters... The game will simply not work, so i
| decided to do a check on the Microsoft sight etc.. and decided to make sure
| there where no product updates that might help resolve the issue... However,
| The Update site aksed me to validate my windows, which i did and it said my
| windows is not authenticated/valid........ I own two PCs one of which came
| with windows (dare i say PCWorld ???).. this one, my own custom gaming
| machine.. I have NOT installed my windows on any other system... Please what
| do I do??