Hot Fix and Activation Problem

[Darkman]

Hi all.

I seem to be having a small problem after installing some hotfixes. I
went to Windows Update and downloaded all the security updates for XP Corp
SP1. In total there was 46. I put 33 of them that start with Q##### etc
into a directory and created a batch file to run them using the /Z /Q
switches.
All the fixes ran fine and when I went to reboot the machine I received an
error stating that Windows encountered a problem which is preventing it from
accurately reading my activation. Of course then you cannot log in and I
had to do a repair on XP to get back in. I ran the hotfixes again just to
make sure it was them and sure enough it was.
Microsoft Knowledge base touches on this and says to do a in place upgrade
but after spending hours reading hotfix info at Microsoft, slipstreaming
SP1, adding all the hotfixes, creating and testing batch files, DX9 and
other trinkets on a new bootable CD Rom I find I cannot run the hotfixes
without the system not finding my activation.
I am wondering if any one particular hotfix has been known to cause this
to which I will remove from the batch file. Other than that the updated CD
works fine. I am running a licensed legal copy of XP and in fact we have
over 80 licensed machines at work that I wanted to update in this fashion
over the network. It certainly sounded like a great idea at the time.
Help !!!

Thanks
Grant

 

[kurttrail]

Hi all.

I seem to be having a small problem after installing some hotfixes.
I went to Windows Update and downloaded all the security updates for
XP Corp SP1. In total there was 46. I put 33 of them that start
with Q##### etc into a directory and created a batch file to run them
using the /Z /Q switches.
All the fixes ran fine and when I went to reboot the machine I
received an error stating that Windows encountered a problem which is
preventing it from accurately reading my activation. Of course then
you cannot log in and I had to do a repair on XP to get back in. I
ran the hotfixes again just to make sure it was them and sure enough
it was. Microsoft Knowledge base touches on this and says to do a
in place upgrade but after spending hours reading hotfix info at
Microsoft, slipstreaming SP1, adding all the hotfixes, creating and
testing batch files, DX9 and other trinkets on a new bootable CD Rom
I find I cannot run the hotfixes without the system not finding my
activation. I am wondering if any one particular hotfix has been
known to cause this
to which I will remove from the batch file. Other than that the
updated CD works fine. I am running a licensed legal copy of XP and
in fact we have over 80 licensed machines at work that I wanted to
update in this fashion over the network. It certainly sounded like a
great idea at the time. Help !!!

Thanks
Grant

Some people might advise you to go with VL media that has PA disabled,
but that opens up your business to software audits. And since PA is
merely disabled, it can be accidentally bought back to life in VL
installs. That and the fact that you'd be double-licensing 80 machines
would make getting VL media not a very good choice either.

Everything that MS has been doing over the last few years is to limit
choice of it's customers. The only way MS will ever change this course
is if it's customers stop buying MS products, until MS puts it's
customers before, and above it's paranoia.

Sorry I can't be of more help to your particular situation, but those of
us that have positively reinforced MS's paranoia by buying their
PA-disabled products have to take responsibility for that action, and
make up for that mistake, by not repeating it ever again.

--
Peace!
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Alex Nichol]

I seem to be having a small problem after installing some hotfixes. I
went to Windows Update and downloaded all the security updates for XP Corp
SP1. In total there was 46. I put 33 of them that start with Q##### etc
into a directory and created a batch file to run them using the /Z /Q
switches.

XP 'Corp' is a warning note - it almost always indicates a pirated copy
of the XP Volume-licensed version, with a Product key that has been
stolen. MS Will try to prevent such copies getting updates, and you
can't expect help on a news service hosted by MS

 

[kurttrail]

XP 'Corp' is a warning note - it almost always indicates a pirated
copy
of the XP Volume-licensed version, with a Product key that has been
stolen. MS Will try to prevent such copies getting updates, and you
can't expect help on a news service hosted by MS

Only those that use Buzz Words to convict people of software piracy
probably wouldn't help him. I thought the OP was referring to
downloading the updates from the Windows Update Catalog, which used to
be the Corp Update site.

All you MicroVolunteers should really chill on characterizing people as
pirates, based on your wrongly perceived "warning notes."

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Darkman]

Hi Alex

I think you may have misread or I didn't type more clearly. The CD I have
is store bought. The 80 machines at work are fully licensed Dell machines
that came with XP Pro. Our company is rather large (Canada wide) and we are
bringing our networks from Win98 and Novell to XP and eventually Win2003
Server. I am able to apply all updates off of Windows Update site with no
problems. It is when I download them and make a batch file to auto install
the hotfixes via a batch file is when I get the error message.
I am not into stealing software from Microsoft and in fact am an MCP/CCNA.
I don't post my credentials because of past posts I have seen where some
MVPs were blasting others in some kind of pecking order contest a couple of
years ago on the WinMe news groups.
All I wanted to do was not have to go to each machine and update them all
manually off the web site.

Thank you
Grant

I seem to be having a small problem after installing some hotfixes. I
went to Windows Update and downloaded all the security updates for XP Corp
SP1. In total there was 46. I put 33 of them that start with Q##### etc
into a directory and created a batch file to run them using the /Z /Q
switches.

XP 'Corp' is a warning note - it almost always indicates a pirated copy
of the XP Volume-licensed version, with a Product key that has been
stolen. MS Will try to prevent such copies getting updates, and you
can't expect help on a news service hosted by MS