Ahh okay.
I had an old oem installed when I first bought my system, but had a crash.. didn't have the $$$ to cough up for a legit copy, and installed what I was informed was a 'corporate' cd... this worked fine up until i installed the WGA... then it wouldn't let me update at all... So I just never bothered... my problem for using 'unlicensed' s/w.
Anyway long story short, I have a legit install now, and everything works great (cept for windows still not seeing 40Gb of my 200Gb(186) drive.. but, it was a piece of cake to install XP pro w/ sp2 over the 'pirated version', and WGA notifications aren't a problem for me. I didn't even have to go through half the troubles some of these poor sods have.
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Ahh okay. I had an old oem installed when I first bought my system, but had a crash.. didn't have the $$$ to cough up for a legit copy, and installed what I was informed was a 'corporate' cd... this worked fine up until i installed the WGA... then it wouldn't let me update at all... So I just never bothered... my problem for using 'unlicensed' s/w. Anyway long story short, I have a legit install now, and everything works great (cept for windows still not seeing 40Gb of my 200Gb(186) drive.. but, it was a piece of cake to install XP pro w/ sp2 over the 'pirated version', and WGA notifications aren't a problem for me. I didn't even have to go through half the troubles some of these poor sods have.
I don't understand, what's the big issue with Genuine Advantage? And how do you avoid installing it, and still get updates from M$?