Hi all, Didnt want to hijack anyones thread, but wanted to say a quick thanks for a great forum with tons if top notch useful info. Yesterday, I got the dreaded "not genuine" message, and after a lot of reading, and much head scratching at first I managed to solve my problem very easily this evening and all is now working as it should!! One question I hope someone can answer - I am using the last loader by Daz, and windows is showing as activated -all good there, but, if I go to M$ to try and validate, it fails when downloading the tool.... am I supposed to be validating it, or is it already done? I installed SP1 before running the loader (it was after this things went wrong) so not a drama, was just wondering? But thanks again to all for top notch, useful info, and huge shout to Daz for a bloody good tool