After XP SP1 installation, activation of windows and upgrade to SP3, Microsoft Security Essentials said that I need to get Windows Genuine?

My brother-in-law gave me his laptop Dell Latitude D610 to work on. It was loaded with virus and almost completely non-functional. I installed an old windows XP Home Edition SP1 upgrade disk (I had to insert my plu too Windows 98 disc) on it because I had no original disks supplied with the computer. I am therefore perfectly legal with that.  I installed it and I activated it until I went through updates. When I finished updates of service pack to download SP2 to the execution of the method to update to SP3. I tried to install Microsoft Security Essentials however it would not load and said I had to VALIDATE windows. I already got it activated prior to all other updates. How can I fix it? When I try to validate windows all I see is a white screen, so I can't go any further!  So basically I have 2 problems I need to validate (the computer says that Windows is already activated when I click on the button "Activate Windows"). And I get the white screen when I try to validate... Please help I know it's legal software, just old.

Hello


Method 1:
Visit the genuine Microsoft software Site of diagnosis and start the Diagnostics.
http://www.Microsoft.com/genuine/diag/
 
 
Method 2:
Also, follow the steps in troubleshooting the Microsoft KB article and check if it works.
Windows Genuine Advantage does not validate a copy of Windows XP
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/916247
 
 
You can also perform validation again at the http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/validate

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