Re: New Authentication process...

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Explanation: WGA uses a multistep checking routine. The first step is to
check to see if the operating system is activated. If yes, it goes to step
two. If not, it informs the user that he needs to activate and then return.
But XP and Server 2003 are the earliest operating systems requiring
activation. Windows 2000 does not. So what does WGA do with step one if
the OS does not require activation? It validates without any more checks
and terminates.

The text you have been referring to is actually meaningless. Why it remains
there I don't know. Perhaps the WGA team once intended to come up with an
alternative check to activation and never did. I am not privy to that
history but it is conceivable.

I have seen how WGA handles at least one other step that fails. When I ran
my XP Pro x64 through WGA the first time it informed me that it could not
find my key in its database and asked me to fill out a short questionairre
about where I purchased my computer. It then validated my x64.

All x64 copies are OEM so I sort of understand where that came from.

Hope this helps.

"LVTravel" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11ef9sf5minak36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Carey, FYI, as the FAQ you listed shows, the authentication process also
> applies to Win 2K users.
>
> "Validation is currently recommended, but not required. Should it become
> required in the future, only users of Windows XP and Windows 2000
> customers (client, not server) will be required to validate. Genuine
> Windows downloads will continue to be available, without validation, to
> customers running Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows Server 2003, and Windows
> NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3. However, Genuine Windows downloads are not
> available for older versions of Windows (Windows 95, NT 4.0 with Service
> Pack 2 and earlier), and non-Microsoft operating systems.
>
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%235RUYtfkFHA.2044@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> The Genuine Advantage program applies to Windows XP users only.
>>
>> About Genuine Microsoft Software
>> 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
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows XP - Shell/User
>> Microsoft Newsgroups
>>
>> Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "Pete" wrote:
>>
>> | I read on Yahoo that MS has a new authentication process.
>> | Does this new authentication process collect IP addresses or anything
>> else
>> | about the end user? Does it apply only to XP, or also the old systems
>> such
>> | as 98se etc.?
>
>


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