In addition to Mark's good advice...
You possibly disabled the Cryptography service by "tweaking"
XP using well intended but bad advice from a site or magazine.
1. Click Start / Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services
Scroll down to "Cryptographic Services", double click it and
change Startup type to: Automatic and click the "Start" button.
2. If the problem persists, go to c:\windows\system32 and rename
the catroot2 directory to catrootold. Catroot2 might be too full.
3. Repairing Windows is our final option. Boot from your Windows
CD (you may have to press F12 while starting up, or change the
bootup order in your BIOS) and then follow the instructions at:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Good luck!
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Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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| You could try this (fingers x'd); right click my
| computer, select properties, select the hardware tab,
| click driver signing, select ignore, then ok.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Im trying 2 install directX 9 for XP...
| >It gives me an error that says: The software you are
| >installing has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify
| >its compatibility with Windows XP (Tell me why this
| >testing is important.)
| >
| >This software will not be installed. Contact your system
| >administrator
| >
| >I dunno what 2 do... i need 2 get DirectX 9 to play a
| new
| >game i got and i have no idea how 2 call microsoft or
| get
| >any help on bypassing this error... Help me!
| >.
