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Genuine Windows Notification is really annoying

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paulney

Diamond Member
Good thing I got rid of it.

And no, I didn't steal: I have an MSDN copy I downloaded when I had full MSDN subscription as a developer at my previous job. And now it's not 'Genuine' :roll:
 
it's only annoying if you have a dodgy copy of WinXP...if you are legit you should have no problems....in theory any way
 
Originally posted by: Stumps
it's only annoying if you have a dodgy copy of WinXP...if you are legit you should have no problems....in theory any way
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Except that if your legit copy came your way any other way than by buying it in a box, or with a PC, it's going to give you hell.

MSDN copies are NOTORIOUS for setting off the alarms. So are legitimate VLK licenses (a legit VLK license becomes a blacklisted VLK license if a certain number of clients talk to the main Windows Update server within a certain amount of time - the workaround for this is to do whatever Microsoft wants you to do to mirror Windows Update locally, which involves buying Server 2003 and setting up ActiveDirectory, which basically requires you to license at least 2 copies of Server 2003)

-We had that happen on campus recently. They were setting up a new lab, and updating the PCs, when suddenly, they started failing validation. The volume license is for something like 150 thousand copies, of which they've used NOWHERE NEAR THAT MANY. "The Man" was not happy. All the domain controllers are now mirroring the updates as per his conversation with Microsoft.
 
i have a legit copy of xp, but after all the problems i heard that it does, i simply didn't install it. i choose what updates i get from MS. solves the problem.
 
Originally posted by: paulney
Good thing I got rid of it.

And no, I didn't steal: I have an MSDN copy I downloaded when I had full MSDN subscription as a developer at my previous job. And now it's not 'Genuine' :roll:
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ah... good thing i didnt download that "critical" patch 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Stumps
it's only annoying if you have a dodgy copy of WinXP...if you are legit you should have no problems....in theory any way
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Except that you'll end up having to call MS every year to re-activate when you install new hardware or upgrade your computer. Since, after all, you've reached the maximum # of activations.

Originally posted by: her209
It also "phones home" for those of you that don't know.
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Yup...I set my firewall to Deny it after I updated🙂
 
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
So what is this "Genuine Windows Notification" thing you guys are talking about? I've never seen/used it. 😕
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It's a lovely little notification that comes up and smacks you in the face. 😛
 
Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
So what is this "Genuine Windows Notification" thing you guys are talking about? I've never seen/used it. 😕
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It's a lovely little notification that comes up and smacks you in the face. 😛
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Ahh, a bitch-slap from Microsoft. I see... 😉
 
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
So what is this "Genuine Windows Notification" thing you guys are talking about? I've never seen/used it. 😕
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It's a lovely little notification that comes up and smacks you in the face. 😛
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Ahh, a bitch-slap from MicroSHAFT. I see... 😉
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Fixed, and yeah, you could put it like that. Bastards. 😉


 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
I hacked my Genuine Windows Validation .dll simply due to the MSDN crap it kept giving me.
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Windows.Genuine.Advantage.Validation..... 😉

LegitCheckControll.dll
wgalogon.dll
WgaTray.exe


 
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