NIS renewed four days ago but XP desktop says it wasn't.

I have a Win7 / IE11 laptop and an XP / IE8 desktop (soon to be replaced).

I renewed NIS a few days ago - Norton were brilliant - see

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Toolbar-Norton-Identity/NIS-subscription-auto-renewal-effect-upon-Identity-Safe-Vault/m-p/1054907#M15703

 

Today I've wasted eight or nine hours because my XP desktop froze: then I found it was Microsoft's fault - see

http://community.norton.com/t5/Tech-Outpost/Using-XP-Tearing-out-your-hair-because-your-PC-is-frozen/td-p/1062799

 

I've been checking the desktop periodically for Microsoft's patch but within the last hour every time I power it up I get a warning message saying I've turned off NIS and another from Norton saying thast my 'trial period has expired'. That relates to 30 or 60 free days that Norton gave me at the start because of problems. So my XP says no NIS. But my Win7 shows it's been renewed OK.

 

I probably won't use the XP on the internet until the Microsft patch is installed (providing that the XP fault gives me enough CPU to download it!) but do you think the false messages about NIS having been turned off are related to the XP freezing fault??