[lurchy666]

Right mr simple I may have news for you chap..... read the other post and been playing about with the laptop most of the day

the only thing I hadn't done is the version.ini file, so I uninstalled 8.01 and reinstalled it, did activation tool and let it install itself ( it reported as it was 8.01) then closed it ( had to wait a while for it to close) then go into version.ini put the ; in where ur other post said and opened it again and it was fine but reporting 7.6x,

tried your update to 8.02 and it installed and it reported 8.02 and closed it opened it again and got the error again, looked in version.ini and it was without ; again, tried to re do the activation tool again but and it did change the version file but it kept coming up with that error so uninstalled 8.xx again reinstalled 8.01 edited the file version.ini, then did the update opened the program let it do its installing internet update bit it came up as 8.02 again so closed it and edited the file again, then opened diagbox and it was reporting 7.something and was working. also have done the other updates in same way, and it is now working on 8.17/7.81

so it looks like on my machine for some reason after each update I have to edit that file so it reports the 7.xx version or it comes up with that error.