Microsoft Warns Volume License Customers Over Windows Genuine Advantag

[Teddy Rogers]

It's not the first time Windows Genuine Advantage has stirred up controversy over its actions or accuracy. And it is certainly not the first time the anti-piracy tool from Microsoft has returned false positives, cataloging genuine copies of Windows XP as pirated. So the fact that Volume License Key customers have reported encountering problems with WGA validations shouldn't come as a surprise.

Consequently, Phil Liu, the MSFT forum moderator of the Microsoft WGA Validation Problems blamed the recently reported problems on Microsoft. The Redmond Company has not, as yet, resolved the problem and is still investigating issues related to validation management on the Microsoft server side. The WGA failure or non-genuine reports are connected only with Volume License customers of Windows XP.

Microsoft has even provided a workaround to temporarily resolve the matter:

1) Delete the data.dat file from C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataWindows Genuine Advantagedata (The drive letter will depend on where the OS was installed)

2) Revisit http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/validate.aspx to confirm that the machine is now genuine.

3) Run wgatray.exe /b from the command line to ensure that the latest validation is updated for WGA Notifications. This command may not be present on the user’s machine and should not be considered an error if it is not. Please ensure that this is run as an Administrator. A reboot may be required to remove all non-genuine notifications.

Ted.

[dA CLOwN]

Thank's for the information Teddy Rogers, we are aware of this problem and are already working on a fix.

Bill

[s0me0ne]

@dA CLOwN if you are a microsh!t lacky i think you should check out this page

_http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/

and then spend some time fixing your dodgy operating system, rather than wasting your time trying to fix your WGA problem

[dA CLOwN]

@dA CLOwN if you are a microsh!t lacky i think you should check out this page

_http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/

and then spend some time fixing your dodgy operating system, rather than wasting your time trying to fix your WGA problem

It was just a joke. Please forgive me.

Edited October 5, 2006 by dA CLOwN

[PakMan]

It was just a joke.

And it was a good one! You even changed your avatar

Don't apologise dude; not to s0me0ne; as he posted in another topic he's "seriously lacking in the common sense department lately".

PakMan

[Teddy Rogers]

I got the joke

BTW... Money first bug fixes later...

Ted.

[Guest Yair]

arrr i didn't see that go****yourself page.....in years

[Nehebkau]

nice one dA CLOwN but that avatar still freaks me out

[starzboy]

@ clown ...

it sure freaks me out too !

[Guest mph185]

funny

mph...

[Fungus]

hehe , Bozo the clown aint it? I remember that from childhood.

later, Rambozo the Clown

[Guest Kai96]

if u think that ones freaky,, then lookit this one..

h00p://www.ouchytheclown.com/welcome.html

[dA CLOwN]

Just to get people "In The Know", this was the picture i had as my avatar when i posted "The Joke".