Re: Windows Genuine Advantage

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Alias wrote:
Leythos wrote:

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And, again, you've not provided any help for the OP.

This was your "help":

"Just exactly what did you think WGA was going to do when you
installed it? It has to phone home to properly complete it's job."

I don't think he meant me, Alias. He meant the person who started the
thread. I didn't ask for help, I was bitchin', and he chewed me out for
that anyway. ;) But that's okay, he's allowed to chew me out, because I
consider him a friend.

But in answer to you, Leythos, one person only needs one solution--and
all the rest is commentary anyway. That's usenet, as it was, as it is,
as it will be.

What makes me laugh sometimes is how some threads here get ignored
(really complicated questions) while others get the same answer from ten
different people.

At least the commentary adds some variety.

And you snipped this (I wonder why?):

And this job isn't to make XP and better or safer. It has no empirical
use or value for the end user. If all goes well, you've wasted five or
ten minutes at WU to, for the fourth time, prove you're not running a
pirated OS. If all doesn't go well, you could waste days and be forced
to run WGA diagnostic tools.

Well, I'm glad that hasn't happened to me, although it would have been
funny. I got a call last week from Michael Dell's office about the
problems I've been having, and reporting a non-genuine copy of
Windows--along with all my other picayune problems--would've been the
icing on the cake.

Minor update: I changed the firewall settings and I rebooted. Again the
little b@st@rd phoned home and sat there with an open connection. And
sat and sat and sat.

Then I changed the firewall settings back again, and all that happens is
that wgatray.exe loads at startup, tries to call out, gets rejected and
shuts itself down.

I do not understand the point of what it's doing when the firewall lets
it through.

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Insisting on perfect safety is for people
without the balls to live in the real world.
Mary Shafer Iliff


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