Window genuine advantage did not pass?

devizes18193

have a look at windizupdate you'll need to do it in opera or firefox

Russ66

new_mum_again wrote: »

Please dont shout at me but you are obviously all clever people I however am no. I think I get the gist of what I have to do and I hope that inside the pack I am going to buy tomorrow has full instructions!!!
I done the thing jzpop said to do and it says
Microsoft Windows xp
Professional version 2002
service pack 2
registered to ???????? (the person I got the comp off of)
then some numbers
Computer AMD athlon (tm)
XP 2400+
199gHz
256mb of Ram


So I take it when I go and buy a new version I ask for a professional one, he used to use it for work I use it for general could I change it or is it better to stay the same as it is?
Thankyou for your help.:T

XP Pro is gonna cost you at least £60 from ebay and probably 3 times that from PC world. :eek:

Looking at the specs on your PC I would say it's a waste of money when you can get a recon with Vista (allbeit basic but far superior to yours) for £150 c/w 12 month warranty.

I'd carry on with what you have for now and don't worry about the updates.
If it bothers you then do as Devizes says and use Windiz

ormus

or format and install ubuntu linux for free?

(either v606 or v704)

Donnie

dps wrote: »

With Validation package number 3 out you wont get any patches or updates and you wont even get media player now, especially against V6 online validation.

No patches or updates? Are you sure?

Anyway, here's another alternative until you get the problem sorted; http://www.autopatcher.com/

Microsoft have some sort of discount package for those caught in this kind of situation. Haven't got their number at hand.

dps_2

Donnie wrote: »

No patches or updates? Are you sure?

afraid so mate i repaired a pc last friday night and the chap needed some new drivers and a bios update so i got them and i also pointed out that he wasnt upto date so he said go ahead and try windows update and he gets an error message, so i went to update and it came back cannot validate xp updates will not install, i have had this 3 times before with customers so i just do a search for wga and you can usually find a hack file called wgahack.exe then you just inform them to get a COA and see their jaws drop, and its irritates me aswell

cdbrown

I have seen on a friends machine that had a dodgy code that on boot up it gives a warning message that it doesn't pass the WGA, it can then set the display to 800x600 and 16bit color for every startup.

If the pc is running a little sloppy, removal of the old xp version and installation of the new could give the pc a new lease on life.

BeerBelly

If you have the box on the splash screen when you boot (This copy of Windows may be illegal), you can get rid of it with loads of little tools or do the following (be careful not to delete any other keys, as messing around with the registry can mess Windows up):

- Click on Start
- Click on Run
- Type regedit
- Click on Edit and then find
- Type WGA
- Whe it finds an instance of it press delete, then hit F3 or Next to find the next
- After you have deleted all instances of WGA and reboot, you will no longer have this box come up

- There is probably a little script that does all this for you, but this is a way I sussed out thats works without harming ur PC.

rockabilly_spike

then you STILL won't get updates and WGA will download the newest version again and you'll still have a pirate copy.
is it too much to ask for people to pay money for Windows O/S???
it means if it has to go to a PC shop for repair, you have your OWN GENUINE copy of XP.

new_mum_again

Thankyou for your replies I am going to as Russ66 suggested and get a recon with a valid windows, hopefully within the next 2 wks!! (And will be straight up pc world!!!)My brother who knows more about comps than I do is going to keep an eye on ebay for me and send me details of any he thinks are suitable!! I didnt get this intentionally if I hadnt of clicked on the updates I still wouldnt of known! By the way would the bloke who built the comp known that it was an illegal copy or not (just out of interest really hes moved to austrailia hence why he was selling the comp in first place) Thankyou again for all your advice what a friendly bunch you are over in the techie area.:A

Donnie

new_mum_again wrote: »

Thankyou for your replies I am going to as Russ66 suggested and get a recon with a valid windows, hopefully within the next 2 wks!! (And will be straight up pc world!!!)My brother who knows more about comps than I do is going to keep an eye on ebay for me and send me details of any he thinks are suitable!! I didnt get this intentionally if I hadnt of clicked on the updates I still wouldnt of known! By the way would the bloke who built the comp known that it was an illegal copy or not (just out of interest really hes moved to austrailia hence why he was selling the comp in first place) Thankyou again for all your advice what a friendly bunch you are over in the techie area.:A

Keep an eye on the Refurbs at https://www.medionshop.co.uk There is nothing worthwhile there at the mo., but I picked a nice basic machine with DVD writer etc for £150. Brand new, not a scratch on it. They've one for £180, but it's not worth it.