I am using the disk that came with my Gateway 4 years ago. I have had to reinstall a few times. I keep getting viruses and bloat (erherm). Now your treating me like a crook. Fix it now please.
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Validation Incomplete: Unable to Perform Validation
[0x80080299]
Why didn’t my machine complete validation?
You have encountered an unknown error. Please contact your local product support team for further assistance with this issue.
You receive a "Validation Incomplete: Online Validation Failure" error message or a "0x80080204" error code when you try to validate Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906533/en-us