Windows Updates is showing WGA even though I hid WGA last fall (?!)

[XP Guy]

I perform manual Windows-Update sessions on a particular system with
XP-sp2.

Last fall, when Micro$haft came out with a WGA update, I hid that update
so I wouldn't see it again.

The last time I performed an update check was on March 9 or 10. No
issues with that update session.

Today, I performed another update check, and low and behold Microsoft is
offering Windows Genuine disAdvantage to me. What? I told Windoze
Updates to hide that piece of shit spycode. Again I select "hide this
update". There are 4 other updates, and I select and install them.

I check the list of updates I've chosen to hide. I'm expecting to see 2
entries for WGA. But instead I only see one. It's KB905474.

So I assume that Milkro$oft has corrupted it's own "hide this update"
settings by foisting this WGA update upon me. Is this Macro$haft's way
of getting WGA onto systems that are set to auto-update and that have
otherwise hidden or ignored that update in the past?

Is this a known issue? Am I the first to observe it?

Are we ready for the avalanche of users that will being posting their
WGA problems?

Is there some registry key that I can set that will insure that WGA
never gets installed regardless of what games Micro$lap plays with
windowsupdate?

 

[VanguardLH]

Last fall, when Micro$haft ...

Yep, someone that bashes a product for which they want help. Uh huh,
like that will garner you lots of pity ... not!

Why don't you also include "nazi" since that's a guaranteed thread
stopper, too.

 

[XP Guy]

Yep, someone that bashes a product for which they want help.

Hey dickface. What exactly do you think is wrong with "bashing"
Macro$haft while asking questions about what the **** they're up to?
You think I'm the first one to do that?

Uh huh, like that will garner you lots of pity ... not!

I wasn't exactly looking for pity from a butt-licking Meekro$oft
appologist like you.

I guess this is your way of hiding your ignorance of the issue I raised.

I suggest you curb your desire to spout-off your piehole just to prove
how witty you are when you can't discuss the material at hand.

And by the way - Balmer called. He needs you to lick his ass some more.

 

[1PW]

I perform manual Windows-Update sessions on a particular system with
XP-sp2.

Last fall, when Micro$haft came out with a WGA update, I hid that update
so I wouldn't see it again.

The last time I performed an update check was on March 9 or 10. No
issues with that update session.

Today, I performed another update check, and low and behold Microsoft is
offering Windows Genuine disAdvantage to me. What? I told Windoze
Updates to hide that piece of shit spycode. Again I select "hide this
update". There are 4 other updates, and I select and install them.

I check the list of updates I've chosen to hide. I'm expecting to see 2
entries for WGA. But instead I only see one. It's KB905474.

So I assume that Milkro$oft has corrupted it's own "hide this update"
settings by foisting this WGA update upon me. Is this Macro$haft's way
of getting WGA onto systems that are set to auto-update and that have
otherwise hidden or ignored that update in the past?

Is this a known issue? Am I the first to observe it?

Are we ready for the avalanche of users that will being posting their
WGA problems?

Is there some registry key that I can set that will insure that WGA
never gets installed regardless of what games Micro$lap plays with
windowsupdate?

Although this thread was crossposted, please refrain from multiposting
the same subject in other NGs.

Thanks,

Pete

 

[smlunatick]

I perform manual Windows-Update sessions on a particular system with
XP-sp2.

Last fall, when Micro$haft came out with a WGA update, I hid that update
so I wouldn't see it again.

The last time I performed an update check was on March 9 or 10.  No
issues with that update session.

Today, I performed another update check, and low and behold Microsoft is
offering Windows Genuine disAdvantage to me.  What?  I told Windoze
Updates to hide that piece of shit spycode.  Again I select "hide this
update".  There are 4 other updates, and I select and install them.

I check the list of updates I've chosen to hide.  I'm expecting to see 2
entries for WGA.  But instead I only see one.  It's KB905474.

So I assume that Milkro$oft has corrupted it's own "hide this update"
settings by foisting this WGA update upon me.  Is this Macro$haft's way
of getting WGA onto systems that are set to auto-update and that have
otherwise hidden or ignored that update in the past?

Is this a known issue?  Am I the first to observe it?

Are we ready for the avalanche of users that will being posting their
WGA problems?

Is there some registry key that I can set that will insure that WGA
never gets installed regardless of what games Micro$lap plays with
windowsupdate?

Microsoft has "reserved" their rights to modify WGA. WGA has changed
quite a few times already.

Also, there was a news article that Microsoft had the possiblity of
"rigging" automatic updates to silently install update, without our
knowledge.

 

[XP Guy]

Although this thread was crossposted, please refrain from
multiposting the same subject in other NGs.

The usenet server I post through has a limit of 3 groups in a
cross-post. Hence why I divided the post as two multi-posts to 3 groups
each. If I could have, I would have cross-posted to all 6 groups using
a single post.

 

[XP Guy]

Microsoft has "reserved" their rights to modify WGA. WGA has
changed quite a few times already.

In which case, if this was a *different* WGA, then because I chose to
ignore it a *second* time, I should see *two* entries in my list of
ignored updates. But I only see ONE entry for WGA.

And I don't give a rats ass that they "reserve" the right to modify
WGA. If they've engineered and deployed a "hide-this-update" mechanism
within windowsupdates, then why do they break that mechanism for WGA?

I've chosen to ignore WGA (KB905474).

Explain why WU is ignoring that setting and attempting to offer KB905474
to me again.

Also, there was a news article that Microsoft had the possiblity
of "rigging" automatic updates to silently install update, without
our knowledge.

So Microsoft goes without blame or critizism for doing that, yet anyone
that chooses to avoid installing WGA is having their motives come under
suspicion and question?

Does anyone else find it ironic that Microsoft is experiencing Vista
competition - from their own legacy product (XP) ?

If Vista is such a great piece of hot shit, they why is Microsoft
employing more frequent and more devious ways to stamp out XP usage?

 

[Michael Meyers]

I perform manual Windows-Update sessions on a particular system with
XP-sp2.

Last fall, when Micro$haft came out with a WGA update, I hid that update
so I wouldn't see it again.

The last time I performed an update check was on March 9 or 10. No
issues with that update session.

Today, I performed another update check, and low and behold Microsoft is
offering Windows Genuine disAdvantage to me. What? I told Windoze
Updates to hide that piece of shit spycode. Again I select "hide this
update". There are 4 other updates, and I select and install them.

I check the list of updates I've chosen to hide. I'm expecting to see 2
entries for WGA. But instead I only see one. It's KB905474.

So I assume that Milkro$oft has corrupted it's own "hide this update"
settings by foisting this WGA update upon me. Is this Macro$haft's way
of getting WGA onto systems that are set to auto-update and that have
otherwise hidden or ignored that update in the past?

Is this a known issue? Am I the first to observe it?

Are we ready for the avalanche of users that will being posting their
WGA problems?

Is there some registry key that I can set that will insure that WGA
never gets installed regardless of what games Micro$lap plays with
windowsupdate?

Same thing happened to me yesterday.

 

[Mike Torello]

The usenet server I post through has a limit of 3 groups in a
cross-post. Hence why I divided the post as two multi-posts to 3 groups
each. If I could have, I would have cross-posted to all 6 groups using
a single post.

Three should have been plenty.

 

[Bob I]

You could have left out microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
because it isn't an issue with the Windows Help and Support.

 

[1PW]

The usenet server I post through has a limit of 3 groups in a
cross-post. Hence why I divided the post as two multi-posts to 3 groups
each. If I could have, I would have cross-posted to all 6 groups using
a single post.

Good reason.

 

[XP Guy]

Are comments being accepted on this page?

Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Pro

http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2...xp-pro.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

I posted a comment yesterday, but it's not showing up.

 

[haunt]

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