Windows Advantage

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Dolphy wrote:

If you are referring to the way Microsoft validates your Windows OS
before allowing you to download patches and software, there is a
foolproof method that always works. Buy a legal copy of Windows!
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Only for relatively small values of "always". A couple months back,
Windows Update wanted to install a new version of the WGA Validation
Tool for me before it would proceed. The install failed, and it's
failed every time I've tried since.
 
»Q« said:
Only for relatively small values of "always". A couple months back,
Windows Update wanted to install a new version of the WGA Validation
Tool for me before it would proceed. The install failed, and it's
failed every time I've tried since.
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Then just run system restore, or use the built-in ultra reliable backup
system to
load a bootdrive image from cd/dvd/other media . [ ;-) ]

maybe your problem can be this ?
( or otherwise worked around from there )

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp
there you can select a basket of updates for offline use


xp sp2 section

Update for Windows XP (KB910437) - (Posted Date: December 08, 2005)
Download size: 1.1 MB
Install this update to prevent or resolve an issue in which Windows Update
and Automatic Updates can no longer download updates after an Access
Violation error occurs when using the Automatic Updates service. After you
install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

An update update update.
 
»Q« said:
Only for relatively small values of "always". A couple months
back, Windows Update wanted to install a new version of the WGA
Validation Tool for me before it would proceed. The install
failed, and it's failed every time I've tried since.
Click to expand...

Then just run system restore, or use the built-in ultra reliable
backup system to load a bootdrive image from cd/dvd/other
media . [ ;-) ]
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Backups from that long ago have already been overwritten. This
isn't a problem I'm trying to solve. I was just pointing out that
it's not a "foolproof method that always works".
maybe your problem can be this ?
( or otherwise worked around from there )

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp
there you can select a basket of updates for offline use
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No, I can't. It tells me that I must be logged on as an
administrator in order to proceed, despite the fact that I'm logged on
as an administrator.
xp sp2 section

Update for Windows XP (KB910437) - (Posted Date: December 08,
2005) Download size: 1.1 MB
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It was installed on 13 December.
 
M.L. said:
Only appears to check for critical Windows updates and Firefox-related
updates. It does not allow one to download or update apps that must
pass WGA.
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Can't get it to work with K-Meleon. K-Meleon crashes before the actual
scan has even started.

Porytu Cotem
 
»Q« said:
No, I can't. It tells me that I must be logged on as an
administrator in order to proceed, despite the fact that I'm logged on
as an administrator.
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Same here.

Qutickle
 
powerstation said:
No your probably logged on as a user with administrator privileges not as
"the administrator" the two are different
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[InOtherWords] We are more or less not allowed to use that site if we
have the 'Home Edition' Bundle of WinXP. :-(
 
No your probably logged on as a user with administrator privileges not
as "the administrator" the two are different
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Sure, they're different, but that's like saying this apple is different
than that apple. They're both still apples. That's why there's such a
thing a the "Administrators" group. No program, and certainly no program
or update or anything from Microsoft, should require being logged in to
the "Administrator" account. All that should be required is that the
logged in account be a member of the "Administrators" group. I have seen
some programs so braindead (cough*Adobe*cough), they have a problem
installing if you're not logged in to the "Administrator" account itself.

As a long time LAN Administrator myself, I know of what I speak.
 
Klaatu said:
Sure, they're different, but that's like saying this apple is different
than that apple. They're both still apples. That's why there's such a
thing a the "Administrators" group. No program, and certainly no program
or update or anything from Microsoft, should require being logged in to
the "Administrator" account. All that should be required is that the
logged in account be a member of the "Administrators" group. I have seen
some programs so braindead (cough*Adobe*cough), they have a problem
installing if you're not logged in to the "Administrator" account itself.

As a long time LAN Administrator myself, I know of what I speak.

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... No matter what happens, someone always knew it would.
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I agree with you. I merely stated why the user could not get access to the
site I didn't make the rules !! Incidentally you don't actually have to log
into windows as the administrator just right click on the update icon and
select "run as" then select administrator hope this helps.
 
powerstation said:
No your probably logged on as a user with administrator privileges not as
"the administrator" the two are different
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No, I am the administrator.

Qutickle
 
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