Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Problem

[Sam]

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with windows XP Pro (SP2) and all of the
current MS Security updates. However, each time I go to the Microsoft
Update web site I see the need for the Windows Genuine Advantage
Notification (KB905474) to be downloaded and installed. I have done this at
least two times but it still has not helped. It appears that I have had a
successful install because in the system folder of the event viewer, there
is any entry that states the following:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Windows Update Agent
Event Category: Installation
Event ID: 19
Date: 5/28/2006
Time: 1:02:36 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XXXXXXX
Description:
Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the following
update: Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130)


I should note that I purchased my computer new from Dell and still have the
windows XP Pro CD. Any suggestions as to how to solve this problem would be
very much appreciated. Thanks, Sam.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows Genuine Advantage - Diagnostic Site
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/

Download and install the WGA Diagnostic Tool:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012

The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation check process
does not complete when you try to validate your copy of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905226/en-us

You receive a "Validation Incomplete: Online Validation Failure"
error message or a "0x80080204" error code when you try to validate Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906533/en-us

Windows Genuine Advantage Newsgroup
http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=125&SiteID=25

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with windows XP Pro (SP2) and all of the
| current MS Security updates. However, each time I go to the Microsoft
| Update web site I see the need for the Windows Genuine Advantage
| Notification (KB905474) to be downloaded and installed. I have done this at
| least two times but it still has not helped. It appears that I have had a
| successful install because in the system folder of the event viewer, there
| is any entry that states the following:
|
| Event Type: Information
| Event Source: Windows Update Agent
| Event Category: Installation
| Event ID: 19
| Date: 5/28/2006
| Time: 1:02:36 PM
| User: N/A
| Computer: XXXXXXX
| Description:
| Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the following
| update: Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130)
|
|
| I should note that I purchased my computer new from Dell and still have the
| windows XP Pro CD. Any suggestions as to how to solve this problem would be
| very much appreciated. Thanks, Sam.

 

[kurttrail]

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with windows XP Pro (SP2) and all of the
current MS Security updates. However, each time I go to the Microsoft
Update web site I see the need for the Windows Genuine Advantage
Notification (KB905474) to be downloaded and installed. I have done
this at least two times but it still has not helped. It appears that
I have had a successful install because in the system folder of the
event viewer, there is any entry that states the following:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Windows Update Agent
Event Category: Installation
Event ID: 19
Date: 5/28/2006
Time: 1:02:36 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XXXXXXX
Description:
Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the
following update: Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool
(KB892130)

I should note that I purchased my computer new from Dell and still
have the windows XP Pro CD. Any suggestions as to how to solve this
problem would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Sam.

There should be a little check box to hide the update. It's not like
you need it for anything, unless you suspect Dell is selling pirated XP
to its customers.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Alias]

There should be a little check box to hide the update. It's not like
you need it for anything, unless you suspect Dell is selling pirated XP
to its customers.

No more choice, Kurt. No little check box to hide it. If you want to use
Windows Update, you got to install WGA III on your machine. It's the
fourth you-are-a-thief-until-you-prove-otherwise trip from MS.
Naturally, there is a crack out for it already. When will MS learn that
this you-are-a-thief-until-you-prove-otherwise trip is very bad PR?

Alias

 

[kurttrail]

No more choice, Kurt. No little check box to hide it. If you want to
use Windows Update, you got to install WGA III on your machine. It's
the fourth you-are-a-thief-until-you-prove-otherwise trip from MS.
Naturally, there is a crack out for it already. When will MS learn
that this you-are-a-thief-until-you-prove-otherwise trip is very bad
PR?
Alias

Yep, you're right. It should be amazing that MS would make this
mandatory with so many people complaining that it is branding their
legit installs as counterfeit, but with MS, it is just the scummy way
they do business.

I wonder when they are gonna implement branding people with a COA?!

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Alias]

Yep, you're right. It should be amazing that MS would make this
mandatory with so many people complaining that it is branding their
legit installs as counterfeit, but with MS, it is just the scummy way
they do business.

I wonder when they are gonna implement branding people with a COA?!

The second WGA messed up my stand by. The third one fixed it. In neither
case messing up my computer caught one thief. Now, every time I reboot,
WGA insists on calling home with no explanation. Why is it calling home
and why haven't I gotten an explanation? What would happen if I instruct
my firewall to block it? Will I get a balloon telling me my XP is
pirated? I'm afraid to try for fear that I will have to spend an entire
day or more fixing it.

Alias

 

[antioch]

The second WGA messed up my stand by. The third one fixed it. In neither
case messing up my computer caught one thief. Now, every time I reboot,
WGA insists on calling home with no explanation. Why is it calling home
and why haven't I gotten an explanation? What would happen if I instruct
my firewall to block it? Will I get a balloon telling me my XP is pirated?
I'm afraid to try for fear that I will have to spend an entire day or more
fixing it.

Alias

Who knows what WGA is 'phoning home' about???????????? - that's what I do
not like about it - stuck in my bloody computer - and I do not want to try
any of the fixes to get it off.

 

[Sam]

Cary, many thanks for the information.

I just went to the Windows Genuine Advantage - Diagnostic Site, went thru
the various web pages for determining if my computer was setup okay as to
server connectivity (and it was okay after changing the "Access data sources
across domains" to Prompt), then clicked on the Windows Validation Button
and the final web page came up and said "Validation Complete, Thank you for
validating your copy of Microsoft Windows."

I then went to the Microsoft Update site and still found that the same entry
as before, Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474). Appreciate
any further help, Sam.

 

[POP]

I'm always interested in these things. Please see a couple of
questions inline:

Windows Genuine Advantage - Diagnostic Site
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/

To complete this diagnostic, it's necessary to set *Access Data
Sources Across Domains* to Prompt vs Disabled. Then, after the
successful diagnostic, they recommend you set it back to
Disabled.
I've used WGA multiple times without any problems: Is the
Security change ONLY for the diagnositic, or are they intimating
it's necessary for WGA anytime in the future when I come to it?
They don't explain jack on the web page that I could find.

Download and install the WGA Diagnostic Tool:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012

?? Nothing downloaded: All I got was a "success" notification?
What the hell was I supposed to have downloaded? Or, is it
referring to the IE Bar requesting permission for the download
that they refer to?
WHAT downloaded?
They don't say, really. I don't see any "tool" anywhere? ??
....

Maybe I'm just asleep at the keyboard, but ... these look like
pretty useful links and I've never heard of them. Where is there
a reference online to them, which would steer a person to them?

Regards,

Pop

 

[POP]

There should be a little check box to hide the update. It's not
like you need it for anything, unless you suspect
Dell is selling pirated XP to its customers.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

As usual, you're a wart on the ass of progress, you
self-proclaimed little twit. When you have nothing to say ...

 

[kurttrail]

As usual, you're a wart on the ass of progress, you
self-proclaimed little twit. When you have nothing to say ...

And your post had what to do with progress?

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[George]

Yep, you're right. It should be amazing that MS would make this mandatory
with so many people complaining that it is branding their legit installs
as counterfeit, but with MS, it is just the scummy way they do business.

I wonder when they are gonna implement branding people with a COA?!

The sign of the anti-Christ the bible speaks of????