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An unauthorized change was made to Windows. Error 0x004D401

windows vista pro 32 bit. Just restored the os, and says it is legal when I look it up.

this error message keeps coming up. An unauthorized change was made to Windows. Error 0x004D401.

in pervious problems I finally disabled the control panel and did not get updates. everything worked fine before this.

Thanks

Haresh Nikumbh

Please refer below kb for this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931699

http://www.instant-registry-fixes.org/what-causes-windows-vista-error-0xc004d401/

VirastaR

Hi,

Check this..

"An unauthorized change was made to windows"
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/af3e1143-69c2-49e5-83e1-79d792cda9c3/an-unauthorized-change-was-made-to-windows

Hope this helps too :)

Georgeidp

ASKER

hello

Visit http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/ and click on Validate Windows, then restart your computer.

there was no validate windows link on this site. Am I looking at the wrong place?

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Haresh Nikumbh

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Georgeidp

ASKER

Sorry for the delay.

Went to the url and that worked, when I went to enter the code given, it said url cannot be found. But since then we have had no problem. I don't think that is supposed to work that way, or am I wrong.

Thanks

George

If that works out that is all I had to do.