MS Windows Genuine Advantage Validation ActiveX reported as "Unknown"

[Bruce Sanderson]

Build 701 - Tools, Advanced Tools, System Explorers, Downloaded ActiveX
reports Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Validation as "Unknown".

Bit strange that a piece of strategic Microsoft software is "unknown"!

I clicked "Send to SpyNet for analysis..." - not sure what if anything
happened - no message box, no obvious feedback.

 

[Guest]

It's probably due to the file that lists the known ActiveX files doesn't
contain the ActiveX file for Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation. This
should be added when the next version is released later this year, Beta 2.

Alan

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Not getting it, just installed 701 on a new PC. I agree with Alan, should be
fixed in beta 2, have tried a repair upgrade to see if it will make any
changes? The only case I could think of is corruption or installation on a
pirated copy of Windows.

BTW, are you related Bill Sanderson?
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[Guest]

The range of "possibles" you suggest as an explanation is too narrow.
I could repeat Bill Sanderson's message as it applies word for word to my
machine; yet, neither is the registry corrupt and nor the OS pirated or
otherwise not genuine.

The only reasonable explanation is that given by Alan.
After all, this is only Beta 1.

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