On start up, in the blue screens before the desk top appears, the message box has now changed to 'As you have not resolved this you will receive no further updates' *****! It's them who wouldn't resolve it.
I have no way to counter or verify their accusation that my XP is not genuine and nor in a multitude of screens is there anything I can do to resolve it. For instance one link says 'buy a new licence' (as if I'd buy anything from bastards like these)
But there are none on offer.
There was an option to turn off their 'notifications' but this would stop updates. As they say they've stopped them now anyway I've now clicked this. Some pop-up boxes have stopped but there's still a 'woe betide' banner on my desktop and the desktop is still all black ie no picture, just the icons. I can put the picture back but it goes black again next start-up. This is before I'm on the internet so there must be a file somewhere in the Windows stuff that's taking the image off.
Any ideas please where this might be lurking?
Long term I guess I'll have to learn how to install and use some other OS all together which would be useful knowledge but be hard going at my level of technology.
Thanks again, John
(I have done a full system virus scan and tune up fix of registry errors etc but no threats found)