Re: Express or Custom for Windows updates.

Hi Glen and Robert,
here's a companion in distress....

Glen wrote:

I did go to the web site and attempted to validate, and you were
correct, it froze the machine.

Same here.

Robert wrote:

[http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/whyValidate.aspx]

On that page there is a "Validate Now" button. My guess is that if
you click on that button your machine will freeze as well.

YES!

And, as Glen noticed, this I can confirm this as well:

A week ago I went to do the updates and when I went to the web
site it made me re-install the software to run the updates, it
said that I did not have it. I did not have a choice on whether or
not to pass on this.

Robert:

that it's not just MY PC that is at fault.

MS have to deal with these situations better instead of running
riot over people's PCs and leaving a mess behind them.

Well spoken! Here are my two cents from Germany:
After having tried to install the WGAVT from the Microsoft Update site on my XP pro machine (the log said "successfully"), but Control Panel / Software told me "this update has been removed", each click on the buttons "Fast Search" or "User Defined Search" on the microsort update site caused the system to immediately freeze. Only a cold restart was possible.

I then tried all the previously suggested ways to properly install the WGAVT, and all of them failed, showing the a.m. behaviour.

The last but one try was via wgadiag2.exe; same result as above.


My last (and successful) attempt was to install the WGA thing manually, and alternative #2 worked, thanks to

news:<BA292DC0-8FE2-430B-AD95-6BC85E901C06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

So WGA KB 8921830 is properly installed on my computer, it appears in Control Panel / software and in IE's Advanced / Add-Ons list as well.

BUT: As you are experiencing as well, EVERYTIME I click on the buttons "Fast Search", "User Defined Search" on "Microsoft Update" or any other "validation button" on a Microsoft web sites (for example in
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=999d37c3-4013-48de-b950-ee01256aaa92&DisplayLang=en)
the whole machine freezes immediately . And no, no third party "tuning" nor "security" nor pop up blocker tool was running simultaneously!

Slightly becoming mad after three days of trying....
Good luck to both of you (and me, perhaps)
Joachim

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