Re: Windows Genuine Advantage for updates

"Alias" <alias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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PA Bear wrote:
If you enable Automatic Updates and use it to keep the machine fully
patched, you'll never see a prompt to install a WGA update.

The update you refer to is frequently updated and is required when
using Windows Update or Microsoft Update website to scan for and
install updates.

I have three computers now running XP that are completely WGA free. I
guess I don't really need any "Genuine Advantage" to run XP.

Alias

Reading through past messages I find that the WGA problem surfaced back
in 2006. There was so much outcry against it that Microsoft provided a
way to uninstall it.

What I am writing about is the most recent Windows critical updates. My
system was free of WGA and I had been receiving regular critical updates
whenever they came up without requests to first install WGA. But this
latest critical update set would not let me proceed to downloading the
updates without first installing WGA.

So this is a new version of WGA or a new policy of Microsoft. There do
not seem to have been any new outcry or messages about this since the
messages of 2006. That is what is surprising. I need to get my Windows
updates but do not want spyware on my PCs.

Am I the only one here concerned about this! Is there a way to work
around it?

Jeff


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