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dicecca112

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My friend's dell is giving him issues. When he goes to update windows it tells him that he needs a valid windows based OS to use windows up, and he is on windows XP Home. I checked for viruses, and spyware, and it came clean. Now I remember another person a while back posting this same issue, but search turned up nothing, what can I do to fix this short of doing a reinstall of windows?
 
well I tracked it to this cookie we couldn't delete titled, thanks.asp. Booted in safe mode, and got rid of it and all was well.
 
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