| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 68366 | 2006-04-26 00:29:00 | You may be a victim of software counterfeiting | jamesyboi (6579) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 449581 | 2006-07-21 21:32:00 | I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but since these annoying messages have been bothering me, i have never been able to sign in on my MSN Explorer, its been about 3 says now :(. I am guessing, but is symantec blocking me from doing so?? |
JOEJG (10295) | ||
| 449582 | 2006-07-21 23:25:00 | Ok problem solved.....sort of.I did a google search of my msn problem and looked through some forums and managed to get to this link: www.updatexp.com At the bottom of this link there will be command prompts you have to put in, follow that info.After each one,you press enter and will get a message saying it has succeeded. Reboot your comp after and it will still be there until you get the icon saying windows update is available on the desktop, do it and then reboot, and voila problem solved :). However i am still getting that symantec message meaning the problem came along at bad timing :(.O well i am glad that the main problem is gone, and now i have to deal with unreliable norton :mad: .Anyway the problem was that i needed to redo the computer's digital signature. Ty all. :) |
JOEJG (10295) | ||
| 449583 | 2006-07-21 23:50:00 | Hi, in the intrests of our members, and for general info here is how you can change your product key without reverting to a call to MS. Log on as administrator, go to start/run and type regedit, navigate to HKLM\software\microsoft\windowsNT\currentversion\w paevents..... in the right pane right click OOBETimer select modify now change at least one digit or more say FF to AA. Do not reboot. Now go to start/run and type %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a Press enter, Now check Yes I want to telephone a customer service rep..ETC click next. At this point you will see an option to change product key click this. Enter your new legit product key, then press update. X out of any windows that pop up after this. Be careful this will only work if your product key IS genuine.... if you stuff up start in safe mode and select Last known good configuration . Sorry I should have mentioned Product keys for Home and retail versions of Pro will NOT activate a corporate or OEM version. The algorithms you see... |
jenae (254) | ||
| 449584 | 2006-07-22 00:36:00 | Enter your new legit product key, then press update. X out of any windows that pop up after this. Be careful this will only work if your product key IS genuine.... Just curious... Will this work on a non-legit Windows XP installation using a new legit key? | Greg (193) | ||
| 449585 | 2006-07-22 01:01:00 | Hi Greg, yes it will. | jenae (254) | ||
| 449586 | 2006-08-13 17:38:00 | I have removed Windows Genuine Advantage Notification from my PC. | josip_colak (10296) | ||
| 449587 | 2006-08-28 02:55:00 | Used deveau52's #51 notes which were real easy to follow and hey presto, all back to norm - there's a 1st with a pc! To make sure the wga tool doesn't reset itself, have changed windows update mode to request permision for whichever downloads I choose. Hopefully, unless MS disguise a name for wga, can hopefully load other update without the annoying wga feature. It did seem to mess up my windows media player though as now it doesn't simply play/decode a dvd as before, so any tips on what to do with that would be useful?? | 5am (10297) | ||
| 449588 | 2006-09-17 16:00:00 | I am intrigued by your statement that "I have just uninstalled KB905474, Windows Genuine Advantage Notification, all the files it infiltrated and all the registry entries". Would you be willing to explain how you did that - in the interests of science and knowledge of course? |
haskellbob (10298) | ||
| 449589 | 2006-09-18 02:10:00 | I am intrigued by your statement that "I have just uninstalled KB905474, Windows Genuine Advantage Notification, all the files it infiltrated and all the registry entries". Would you be willing to explain how you did that - in the interests of science and knowledge of course? pm me your email address & when I get home tonight, I'll send you an installer that will do all that for you & install KB905474 without the WGA component (so that it won't automatically be reinstalled by automatic updates) |
Greven (91) | ||
| 449590 | 2006-09-18 11:21:00 | I feel like goody two-shoes... I bought a 'genuine' XPpro from Trademe$ - all sealed, blistered etc etc. I got an inkling something was not quite right when the courier package arrived from.... China! Anyway I loaded it over Win2K and off we went. Then I got the WGA notice after auto-update. Drat. Having trawled through all the h*cking sites I thought I'd not waste hours tweaking and play the Micro$oft game, report a problem and send off for the real thing. I duly couriered off the disc and original packaging (free, courtesy of Micro$oft) and three weeks later got an ultra-genuine XPpro disc with so many holograms and 'this is really a real, true, non-pirate XP disc' stickers on it, it was untrue... I'll keep the playing straight and load the new stuff over the suspect Chinese one so that WGA is activated for real. Not a bad deal really - eventually got 'true' XP for only half price! |
manu (8770) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | |||||