"Genuine Advantage" crack?
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Dilligaf
manage add ons find the add-ons that have been used by IE find the Windows
Genuine Advantage highlight it and then at the bottom click on disable and
you can recive updates.
Don Burnette
Don Burnette
Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> Yes, purchase and install a legitimate version of Windows XP!
>
>
>> Does anyone know how to get around the "Genuine Advantage" update?
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"Don Burnette" <d.bur...@clothes.comcast.net> wrote
+++Bobby "O"+++
machine - and Microsoft hasn't shown me that they're reliable enough that I
should just "trust" them. Besides, I don't like the idea of being forced to
accept everything they want to send my way.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfr...@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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leftred
or try www.microsoft.com
"+++Bobby "O"+++" <rmo...@cox.net> wrote in message
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Ed
<d.bur...@clothes.comcast.net> wrote:
>Who said his was not legitimate??
Don't you just love the arrogance. More proof that this conglomerate
and all its hoard of robots consider the great unwashed public to be
thieves. Or at least until they can prove they aren't and even then,
with a legally obtained and paid for copy in your hands, there still
isn't any guarantee that this conglomerate that was itself subpoenaed
to appear before a Senate investigation committee into its own
business practices and ethics will honor that legally obtained and
paid for copy in your hands.
Regards,
Ed
Carey Frisch [MVP]
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/whyvalidate.aspx
Windows Genuine Advantage FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.aspx?displaylang=en
Protecting Your Privacy
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/PrivacyInfo.aspx?displaylang=en
Carey Frisch [MVP]
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/whyvalidate.aspx
Windows Genuine Advantage FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.aspx?displaylang=en
Protecting Your Privacy
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/PrivacyInfo.aspx?displaylang=en
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Ed
<rmo...@cox.net> wrote:
>and Microsoft hasn't shown me that they're reliable enough that I
>should just "trust" them.
Smart move on your behalf knowing the reputation of the conglomerate
in question. The United State Senate thought they were shady enough
to pull their ass in before an investigation committee. AND... as you
see, they assumed your copy was illegitimate and you were a crook
right off the bat. These people have no honor or ethics and they have
the gaul to question our honor or ethics and assume us to be crooks
until we can prove we are not because their bug laden activation
scheme is known for not working.
Regards,
Ed
Carey Frisch [MVP]
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Ed
<cnfr...@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
>Does you bank require ID to confirm identity when cashing a check?
Nope.... And... they haven't been subpoenaed to appear before a
Senate Investigation Committee to defend their questionable business
practices and ethics either..... I guess one goes hand in hand with
the other... In other words, Crooks and those that flock around them
and proudly fly their banner always seem to be the most suspicious of
others..... Hummmm...... sort of like those that assume when others
have issues with activation or verification that the victim is running
an illegitimate copy.... Sound Familiar? Spin it as you will but you
can't hide what you are.....
Ed
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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfr...@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message news:ezFyJtC...@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
In news:g91ih1h25pu2u7q4c...@4ax.com,
Ed <fa...@fake.com> typed:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:00:37 -0500, "Carey Frisch [MVP]"
> <cnfr...@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does you bank require ID to confirm identity when cashing a check?
>
> Nope.... And... they haven't been subpoenaed to appear before a
> Senate Investigation Committee to defend their questionable business
> practices and ethics either.....
I guess you don't bank with one of those Savings & Loans I read about in the
papers a few years back. That's good.
<rant snipped>
Stan Brown
[MVP] favored us with...
> "+++Bobby "O"+++" wrote:
> | Does anyone know how to get around the "Genuine Advantage" update?
> Yes, purchase and install a legitimate version of Windows XP!
It's not always appropriate to go for the "zinger", my friend.
I have a legitimate copy of XP, and still the "Genuine Advantage:
checker failed on my system. I have no idea why, but for a week or so
I was unable to get updates.
One day it mysteriously began working. If it hadn't, I'd have had to
go out looking for a cracker to use the software that I _paid_ for.
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kurttrail
Naw, most MVPs are as idiotic as Carey.
Carey is "Special," as in Special Olympics!
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"Stan Brown" <the_sta...@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:MPG.1d82d835...@news.individual.net...
kurttrail
> Does you bank require ID to confirm identity when cashing a check?
Is MS paying me interest for using XP?
And if you know your tellers, and are friendly to them, then you don't
need an ID to cash a check. But I suspect an sh*thead like would have
to show ID even more if your tellers got to know you.
Peter Foldes
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"Stan Brown" <the_sta...@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:MPG.1d82d835...@news.individual.net...
Ron Martell
>My version is legitimate - but I want to approve everything that goes on my
>machine - and Microsoft hasn't shown me that they're reliable enough that I
>should just "trust" them. Besides, I don't like the idea of being forced to
>accept everything they want to send my way.
>
>
If you consider them to be that untrustworthy then why are you even
using their software?
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Ron Martell
>Who said his was not legitimate??
>
>Don Burnette
>
>
Can you provide any evidence of a single substantiated instance where
a legitimate copy of Windows was not accepted by WGA?
Mistoffolees
Ron Martell wrote:
> Can you provide any evidence of a single substantiated instance where
> a legitimate copy of Windows was not accepted by WGA?
>
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
As both a Canadian and American citizen, the last time I
checked was that the burden of illegitimacy is proof beyond
a shadow of doubt by the accuser, or Microsoft. Rejection
by WGA is not a demonstration of such proof since (a) WGA
has not been certified to be error-proof by an independent
organization nor (b) has Microsoft proved beyond reasonable
doubt that each Windows XP, sold through its own distribution
net and affiliates is guaranteed to pass WGA. Furthermore,
(c) Microsoft is unable to protect the legitimacy of its
own product by making it piracy-proof, thereby invalidating
WGA among those presumed legitimate purchasers. That is,
Microsoft must safeguard its very own registered trademarks
and copyrights...which it has not done successfully.
Marc
> Does you bank require ID to confirm identity when cashing a check?
You're attempt to compare accessing money to installing a mere download
is laughable.
Microsoft sells us a product, not a service. If they could admit it,
then a service is what they would rather sell us - with a monthly
subscription to Windows. Then, they might have a reason for wanting to
check that people who download updates were subscribers.
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Gunilla
"Ron Martell" <ron.m...@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> "Don Burnette" <d.bur...@clothes.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>Who said his was not legitimate??
>>
>>Don Burnette
>>
>>
>
> Can you provide any evidence of a single substantiated instance where
> a legitimate copy of Windows was not accepted by WGA?
>
Let me just say, regarding your inquiry here Ron, that I have just
reformatted my PC, installed XP Pro (retail/legal) and SP2 again. I didn't
get so far to activating before the first 27 or so updates went down into my
PC via automatic updates but when trying to get "non critical" updates I had
to install the Genuine Advantages thingy first and after installing that it
said I can't get any updates because I had not activated the OS yet.
So I would say that it is, at least, holding back some updates because of
the lack of activation.
Regards,
Gunilla.
Stan Brown
favored us with...
> Can you provide any evidence of a single substantiated instance where
> a legitimate copy of Windows was not accepted by WGA?
[raises hand]
Happened to me, and someone else posted his experience upthread
Alias
affect and inconvenience paying customers and do nothing whatsoever to stop
piracy.
Alias
"Stan Brown" wrote
> In article Ron Martell
Steve N.
> Ed wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:12:37 -0500, "Don Burnette"
>><d.bur...@clothes.comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Who said his was not legitimate??
>>
>>Don't you just love the arrogance. More proof that this conglomerate
>>and all its hoard of robots consider the great unwashed public to be
>>thieves. Or at least until they can prove they aren't and even then,
>>with a legally obtained and paid for copy in your hands, there still
>>isn't any guarantee that this conglomerate that was itself subpoenaed
>>to appear before a Senate investigation committee into its own
>>business practices and ethics will honor that legally obtained and
>>paid for copy in your hands.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ed
>
>
> Naw, most MVPs are as idiotic as Carey.
I hope you really meant "are not".
>
> Carey is "Special," as in Special Olympics!
>
If that wasn't an insult to those special people it'd almost be funny.
Steve
Bob
"Dilligaf" <Dill...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Yes go into the IE EXPLOADER go to internet options programs then click on
| manage add ons find the add-ons that have been used by IE find the Windows
| Genuine Advantage highlight it and then at the bottom click on disable and
| you can recive updates.
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
In news:112573984...@doris.uk.clara.net,
Marc <s...@signature.url> typed:
> Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
>> Does you bank require ID to confirm identity when cashing a check?
>
> You're attempt to compare accessing money to installing a mere
> download is laughable.
>
> Microsoft sells us a product, not a service.
Not really. Microsoft sells you a license to run their software.
> If they could admit it,
> then a service is what they would rather sell us - with a monthly
> subscription to Windows. Then, they might have a reason for wanting to
> check that people who download updates were subscribers.
Well, again, you don't own Windows, and you don't own Office, and you don't
own Photoshop. You purchased the right to install and use X copies of
product Y on your computers. There is a difference - and there's also plenty
of open source stuff out there if you wish to use it, to which the above
would not apply.
Copyright stuff was sure a lot easier before the turn of the (20th) century.
Jon
to Windows Update & downloads, requiring validation.
Jon
"+++Bobby "O"+++" <rmo...@cox.net> wrote in message
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GHalleck
Ron Martell wrote:
> "+++Bobby \"O\"+++" <rmo...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>>My version is legitimate - but I want to approve everything that goes on my
>>machine - and Microsoft hasn't shown me that they're reliable enough that I
>>should just "trust" them. Besides, I don't like the idea of being forced to
>>accept everything they want to send my way.
>>
>>
>
>
> If you consider them to be that untrustworthy then why are you even
> using their software?
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
Surely you must know...maybe not everyone who mistrusts MS
uses all of its software. Perhaps just the essential ones, such
as the operating system. And one has little choice when, in a
monopolistic situation, Windows is the predominant OS that is
available...by 95% over all others. And how did it get that
way? As an OEM and system builder in the 1980's, I certainly
remember selling MS-DOS because it was the cheapest (compared
to any Unix variety), worked with the Intel 8086 family of CPU's,
was not CP/M, and the fact that a computer could not be sold
without an operating system. IOW, there are few alternatives.
If one must shake hands with the devil because that is the only
game in town, then so be it.
GHalleck
+++Bobby "O"+++ wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get around the "Genuine Advantage" update?
Easy...one must do a little bit of work and it means doing
manual download and updates. IMO, it never hurts to spend
about an hour each week visiting the important Microsoft
site such as security, downloads, etc., and getting the
patches. And it helps to use a non-Windows XP machine to do
the visiting and getting the XP stuff.
IOW, if one wants to remain "dumbed down", then one must pay
the piper, er, Bill Gates.
kurttrail
> In news:112573984...@doris.uk.clara.net,
> Marc <s...@signature.url> typed:
>> Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
>>> Does you bank require ID to confirm identity when cashing a check?
>>
>> You're attempt to compare accessing money to installing a mere
>> download is laughable.
>>
>> Microsoft sells us a product, not a service.
>
> Not really. Microsoft sells you a license to run their software.
LOL! It sells a copy of software that has a shrink-wrap license. My TV
comes with a shrink-wrap license too, and no one believes they are
licensing a TV.
>> If they could admit it,
>> then a service is what they would rather sell us - with a monthly
>> subscription to Windows. Then, they might have a reason for wanting
>> to check that people who download updates were subscribers.
>
> Well, again, you don't own Windows, and you don't own Office, and you
> don't own Photoshop.
You don't own the copyright to the software, but you do own the copy of
software that was sold to you by the previous owner of the software, the
retailer.
> You purchased the right to install and use X
> copies of product Y on your computers. There is a difference - and
> there's also plenty of open source stuff out there if you wish to use
> it, to which the above would not apply.
The right of first sale give you the right to use your copy of
copyrighted software, not the shrinkwrap license.
> Copyright stuff was sure a lot easier before the turn of the (20th)
> century.
Actually the legal concept of "fair use" is much older than that. The
colluding members of the BSA are trying to FUD people into believing
that their "fair use" rights can be shrink-wrap licensed away, but have
yet to prove that in a court of law. Until they prove otherwise, a
person has every right to believe that their rights under existing
copyright law trumps the FUD written in post-sale shrinkwrap licenses.
Plato
>
> was not CP/M, and the fact that a computer could not be sold
> without an operating system. IOW, there are few alternatives.
Eh?, "a computer could not be sold without an operating system"?.
Totally FALSE.
> If one must shake hands with the devil because that is the only
> game in town, then so be it.
Eh?
Bob
this definition of a computer... "A device that computes, especially
a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed
mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores,
correlates, or otherwise processes information." That would
seem to indicate that, without an operating system, it's not a
computer because all of those functions require an operating
system, eh?
"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
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Steve N.
> Is it a comuter if it doesn't have an operating system? I found
> this definition of a computer... "A device that computes, especially
> a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed
> mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores,
> correlates, or otherwise processes information." That would
> seem to indicate that, without an operating system, it's not a
> computer because all of those functions require an operating
> system, eh?
Nope. CPU, BIOS, Chipset, all have program code.
Steve
Bob
read: "a computer is a device that contains a CPU, a BIOS and
a Chipset". Somehow me thinks you may be in the minority with
that train of thought...or lack thereof : - (
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Dilligaf
Dilligaf
Plato
>
> Is it a comuter if it doesn't have an operating system? I found
> this definition of a computer... "A device that computes, especially
> a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed
> mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores,
> correlates, or otherwise processes information." That would
> seem to indicate that, without an operating system, it's not a
> computer because all of those functions require an operating
> system, eh?
That's a pretty wide defn. It would seem to indicate that your basic
calculator is a computer, which it probably is. On the other hand, is a
slide rule a computer? How about an abacus? How about a string with
knots to keep track of a villages population?
Lets say I built a brand new pc with all the bells and whisles but the
customer didn't want me to put an OS on it. What did I build then?
Or, lets say I build a system and the customer only wants to run a live
linux cd to get on the internet. Does it cease being a computer if he
takes the cd disk out of the drive?
Plato
>
> Oh, I see, the dictionary is wrong then, and must be corrected to
> read: "a computer is a device that contains a CPU, a BIOS and
> a Chipset". Somehow me thinks you may be in the minority with
> that train of thought...or lack thereof : - (
1. The dictionary is an evolving animal. Defn's change all the time.
2. Just because you find "one" reference that backs up an argument does
not mean the argument is settled. That's why when you do a paper, for
example, you use _many_ references from different and varied sources to
back up your argument.
3. Being in the minority of a "train of thought" does not make that
train of thought the most factual.
Steve N.
> Oh, I see, the dictionary is wrong then, and must be corrected to
> read: "a computer is a device that contains a CPU, a BIOS and
> a Chipset". Somehow me thinks you may be in the minority with
> that train of thought...or lack thereof : - (
I never said the dictionary is wrong, only that your interpetation of
the definition is wrong. The definition accurately describes a computer,
any computer, including the one in your car. What OS is it running,
smartass?
Steve
Ken Blake
Plato <|@|.|> typed:
Over and above all your good points, there have been many
computers built that ran without any operating system at all. The
first computer I used, starting in 1962, was an IBM 1401. It had
no operating system.
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kurttrail
> kurttrail wrote:
>> Ed wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:12:37 -0500, "Don Burnette"
>>> <d.bur...@clothes.comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Who said his was not legitimate??
>>>
>>> Don't you just love the arrogance. More proof that this
>>> conglomerate and all its hoard of robots consider the great
>>> unwashed public to be thieves. Or at least until they can prove
>>> they aren't and even then, with a legally obtained and paid for
>>> copy in your hands, there still isn't any guarantee that this
>>> conglomerate that was itself subpoenaed to appear before a Senate
>>> investigation committee into its own business practices and ethics
>>> will honor that legally obtained and paid for copy in your hands.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ed
>>
>>
>> Naw, most MVPs are as idiotic as Carey.
>
> I hope you really meant "are not".
Yes.
>
>>
>> Carey is "Special," as in Special Olympics!
>>
>
> If that wasn't an insult to those special people it'd almost be funny.
I don't think he win anything, except maybe lowest IQ ever recorded.
Mark
install on my machine let alone validate anything...in the meantime I can't
download any updates....any suggestions now.....Ron???
Carey Frisch [MVP]
The WGA diagnostic tool has been updated to correct
this problem seen by some users.
Please download and execute it from:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012
After running the tool, please return to Windows Update and try it again.
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kurttrail
> Yes mate my computer is a genuine COA copy of XP Home and it will not
> even install on my machine let alone validate anything...in the
> meantime I can't download any updates....any suggestions
> now.....Ron???
Why spend time debugging MS's anti-consumer technologies? Why continue
using another layer of code, that just adds more things that can and
will go wrong when updating your software?
If you can't think of any real good reasons to answer these "Why"
questions with, then you should learn the concepts behind Common Sense
Computing.
And on that page is a link to all of MS's updates to the english version
of WinXP since SP2, and you don't need to validate anything.
http://microscum.kurttrail.com/postsp2
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