Last night, while working on something else, I stupidly authorized
Windows to install a "genuine advantage" update that it was bugging me
for permission to install. I'd have been more scrutinous of this
request, had I not been distracted on other things.

So when I flipped the computer on this morning, I got a warning that I
may be using counterfeit XP software, or something to that effect. It
bugged me every step of the login process about this, and I blew it off
with the "resolve later" option they finally gave me.

20 minutes later, the computer went into the royal blue screen with the
white type saying that something bad had happened to the computer.

I restarted the computer and used System Restore to restore to a point
before I installed the "genuine advantage" (what a laugh) update.

My question is, how do I now avoid this update going onto my computer,
or better yet, how do I essentially permanently decline the "right" to
have it automatically installed?

By way of background, my computer is one I bought from a friend, that I
have since upgraded with a new motherboard, CPU, second hard drive for
data, and new graphics card.

I have an XP CD that I got from him, and it *looks* genuine, but I have
no desire to tinker with an O/S that had otherwise been fine.

The computer is up to date in Windows' eyes. It has SP2 on it, and the
Windows Updates download at night and install in the background.

I am sure millions of users are waking up to this same nightmare I just
experienced, so I am sure solutions to this issue will soon be widely
propagating on the web.

And no, I'm not going to respond to the shakedown MS has on the "genuine
advantage" prompts, offering to make the problem go away if I pay them
money.

<snip>

<snip>

Hey! If you buy a car from a friend, drive it for two years before you are
pulled over in a traffic stop and find out the car is stolen, do you expect
to still keep that car "because you have driven it for two years and it has
given you no problems"? Of course not. You live with the consequences.

Not a great analogy I know, but the best I can come up with at the present.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

xp ? wrote:

Stop using MS's Updaters, Windows, Microsoft, and Automatic Updates.

Learn to patch your OS through Common Sense Computing:

http://comsense.microscum.com

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Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

Either you have a valid copy of XP on your machine or you don't and stop
whining or go to Linux.

Duane

xp ? wrote:

WGA is catching some people who are using pirated software, many without
even knowing they are. If you fall into this catagory then Microsoft are not
the people who are shaking you down.

It also appears to be catching out a lot of genuine users who have a problem
with their system or who are encountering bugs in WGA itself - not sure
which.

I totally sympathise, but if you're not willing to invest the time to find
out if you do have a genuine licence or not then it isn't really possible to
say much constructive about the situation.

xp ? <xp@px.xp> wrote:

This might or might not actually be the case: there are some false positives
at present. Please download the MGA diagnostic from:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=56062
and run it. Click the "Copy to clipboard" button and paste the result into
a post on the special WGA forum at:
http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/...=442&SiteID=25
where you will get better advice than from this Windows Update forum.

This might just be a bad coincidence: there is no reason why the WGA process
should have provoked a blue-screen. If it happens again, note down the
diagnostic details at the bottom of the screen, which should serve to narrow
down the cause of the crash.

--
Robin Walker [MVP Networking]
rdhw@cam.ac.uk

Go back to the mac group moron.

"Robert Moir" <robspamtrap+msnews@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uFPJ4W%23hGHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

In news:xp-922C95.08583904062006@syrcnyrdrs-01-ge0.nyroc.rr.com,
xp ? spewed forth:
type/version of the supplied license key). It's the COA key on the label
that comes WITH the disc that determines if a copy of XP is legit or not.
Most of my discs are copies, slipstreamed with SP2. They are NOT genuine
insofar as MS didn't make/distribute them. But my licenses are in order.

--
I always finish what I sta

Change your Automatic Update settings to stop this or any other update from
downloading and installing without your explicit permission:
Right click My Computer and click Properties.
Click Automatic Update tab.
Make selections as desired.
If you disable Automatic Update, make sure you periodically check since you
will no longer be notified by Windows.
Normally updates are released the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

You have what appears to be a genuine CD, do you also have the original
Product Key?
Have you verified that the correct CD and Product Key were used to install
Windows on your computer?
It would not be the first time I saw a computer with pirated Windows
installed even though there was a proper installation method available.

You should determine if your Windows XP installation is legitimate:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/h...n/default.mspx

Also see:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/invalpk.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"xp ?" <xp@px.xp> wrote in message
news:xp-922C95.08583904062006@syrcnyrdrs-01-ge0.nyroc.rr.com...

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
<snippage>
Jupiter forgot to include this helpful link:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/0...ns-nag-screen/
Just incase it gives you any more problems.


--
Person who fart in church sit in own pew.

Gaoler wrote:

No, he did not. Very few of the Microsoft MVP's who have
gotten involved in discussing the WGA issue have referred
to it.

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:36:12 -0500, Gaoler <g@o.ler> wrote:

http://9down.com/downloads.php?fileid=340

better go with this one it works!






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-Graham

remove the double 'e' to email me.