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Skriven 2006-06-28 15:02:39 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 19039 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: WGA
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:45:39 -0400, "Alan Zisman -> Ross Cassell"
<alan@zisman.ca> wrote:

 AZ> There have been a lot of reports of people with legitimate copies of
 AZ> Windows being flagged by WGA anyway-- and as a result getting
 AZ> nag-messages that start at log-on and continue while using the computer,
 AZ> and of being unable to download non-critical files from Microsoft such
 AZ> as Windows Defender or Windows Media Player.

 AZ> When that happens, there is no easy way to uninstall WGA; Microsoft
 AZ> customer support seems to be suggesting that in those cases, users
 AZ> should purchase a new copy of Windows- even though their original copy
 AZ> was legitimate.

 AZ> Apparently, the version of WGA sent out as a 'critical update' was
 AZ> effectively 'pre-release' software.

 AZ> You may want to take a look at Ed Bott's Ziff-Davis blog on this:

 AZ> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=76

MS (this past Tuesday) released an update to the WGA notify.  Again
identifying itself as a critical update.  Supposedly this will fix the
daily calling home problem (sets it to two weeks instead) and also
eliminate the false positives.

I chose to remove the WGA notifications from both of my machines which
have legal versions of XP Home installed.  As long as the notify
portion of WGA is not mandatory I see no sense in allowing it to run.

Removing the WGA notify will not impact on the ability to download
updates and security patches provided the copy of XP is genuine.

Regards.

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