Today I had a message on my desktop. I followed the prompts, went to the MS Windows XP page and confirmed the validity of my Dell installed OS. I still get the message, the icon in the tray, etc. Have rebooted, shut down completely and re-validated, all to no avail. MSD won't support this OS because I didn't purchase it directly, it was pre-installed by Dell.

As a side note, I'm not able to access my.msn or hotmail, either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...