I have had a similar experience as Paul Thurott (sp?), whereby I purchased what I thought was a "legitimate" copy of XP PRO and loaded on my machine a number of years ago. The license key loaded correctly, etc. and I never had any problems with AUTOMATIC UPDATES....until WGA came along! The first instance of problems is when I was asked whether I wanted to allow WGA to load and I indicated yes, and then a "scan of system" came back with the dreaded you are running a "pirated" version of XP PRO or something to that effect, and that in order to continue with AUTOMATCI UPDATES I would need to buy an authorized version. Well, I believe I have and authorized version, but I never kept anything about who, where, etc. I bought the software from! So, CATCH-22 and of course, I don't do Automatic Updates anymore, only manual.
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I have had a similar experience as Paul Thurott (sp?), whereby I purchased what I thought was a "legitimate" copy of XP PRO and loaded on my machine a number of years ago. The license key loaded correctly, etc. and I never had any problems with AUTOMATIC UPDATES....until WGA came along! The first instance of problems is when I was asked whether I wanted to allow WGA to load and I indicated yes, and then a "scan of system" came back with the dreaded you are running a "pirated" version of XP PRO or something to that effect, and that in order to continue with AUTOMATCI UPDATES I would need to buy an authorized version. Well, I believe I have and authorized version, but I never kept anything about who, where, etc. I bought the software from! So, CATCH-22 and of course, I don't do Automatic Updates anymore, only manual.