Re: My OEM XP on Varo won't authenticate? ???
- From: "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:15:31 -0500
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Carey Frisch
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Windows XP - Shell/User
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"Fishy" wrote:
| New problem.
| (In the last chapter, Fishy could not get her Sony Vaio running XP Home SP1
| to connect to the Update site. Fishy reinstalled the WU Update Engine v6.
| It connected! Then Fishy let it download Installer 3.1 and rebooted. It
| connected again! Now WU says Fishy's computer has to pass "Windows Genuine
| Authentication" and the damn thing failed. ... !!! ???? #$%^&*&^%$ WTF?
|
| It's OEM. Preinstalled. I've got the disks at home. No trouble
| registering or authenticating when I hooked the laptop up a couple of years
| ago.
|
| I WANT MY UPDATES! THIS COMPUTER HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE SPRING TERM,
| LAST APRIL, AND IT IS VULNERABLE! IF I'M ON WIRELESS AND THERE'S AN
| UNPATCHED SECURITY HOLE, THE WHOLE WORLD COULD GO UP IN FLAMES ANY MINUTE!
|
| Please, PA Bear, Taurian, any other good people out there -- help me! Get
| me past this WGA bugaboo.
|
| <*(((><{
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