Re: Genuine Windows ActiveX NOT Listed as Add-On

Locate the file:

C:\ Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine
Advantage\data\data.dat

and delete it. Reboot, send your browser to
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/
and click "Validate Windows".

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

Enjoy all the benefits of genuine Microsoft software:
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/default.mspx

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"Pete Beach" wrote:

| In the past month my Windows Update has stopped working. I get the dreaded:
|
| Validation Incomplete: Unable to Perform Validation[0x80080299]
|
| Both of the following hotfixes/updates are reported as sucessfully installed
| when I review my update history in Windows Update:
|
| Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130)
| Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474)
|
| However, when I go to Tools/Manage Add-ons, the Windows Genuine Validation
| Tool is not listed AT ALL. I know it has to be there and enabled from all
| the posts I've read. (Plus, it's there on my three other computers that are
| updating fine.) I've gone to the Windows Genuine Validation site and the
| ActiveX bar does not appear. So I use the alternate method and get
| "Validation Not Completed: ActiveX Error". When I use the diagnostics,
| everything passes (active scripting, activex enabled) until it gets to
| Microsoft ActiveX controls loading and it stays stuck on "checking" forever
| and goes no further. I have checked my security settings, uninstalled my
| Zone Alarm firewall/antivirus/antispyware, tried to register
| LegitCheckControl.dll manually with regsrv32 (it says it succeeds), deleted
| my temp internet files, and on and on and on.....
|
| It is obvious to me that the problem is that the LegitCheckControl.dll is
| not properly being registered with IE6 to communicate with the validation
| servers. What to do??? I'm at wit's end.
|
| Something I find strange is that there is no Windows Genuine Advantage
| folder under \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data.
|
| Any answers for this poor tired soul? Thanks.
|
| Pete

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