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WGA suffers serious meltdown
« on: August 26, 2007, 09:34:11 AM »
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Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service.

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    Re: WGA suffers serious meltdown
    « Reply #2 on: August 28, 2007, 10:51:10 AM »
    WGA? meltdowns eh? sounds like a  job FOR SUPER CYBER DEFEATER OF THE VIRUSES MAN AND HIS TRUSTY BLOGGER THE RUMOUR SPREADER BOY!

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    Re: WGA suffers serious meltdown
    « Reply #3 on: August 28, 2007, 06:44:02 PM »
    check this out Patio *

     http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/08/to_wga_hell_and.html

    I've seen that fix but it was months and months ago, I'm glad he not only remembered it but that it worked for him.
    If i remember correctly the first time i saw it was the beginning of the Sony/DRM debacle.
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