[GreenKeys] OT: Microsoft to support Windows XP for an additional year...

[Peter Gottlieb]

I got the pop up on a machine which I had just spent a bunch of time 
cleaning of a virus infection.  There was too much on it, not data but 
installed apps, to want to start from scratch, even though I had all the 
XP etc install disks.  So I searched the web and found a way to fake out 
their violation of legally purchased rights and the system gave no 
trouble after that.

I've called MS paid support for this type of problem in the past and had 
them give me special keys to fix the problem, and each time not been 
charged, but that gets tiring, and Google faster, so I've just disabled 
their broken detection ever since.

Peter


On 12/3/2011 5:24 PM, airrelic at juno.com wrote:
> >All that said, if you have a stable, smooth running installation of 
> WIN XP,
> >there is no absolute reason to replace it with WIN7.
>
> Unless you were mucking about in msconfig like I was, trying to find 
> out why
> the machine was booting so slowly, and then all of a sudden a window 
> pops up
> and says "This copy of windows needs to be activated". I clicked on 
> the microsoft
> popup and it took me to the program store requesting I buy Windows 7 
> because
> XP is no longer supported.
>
> We purchased the software upgrade for our HP from Windows ME years ago 
> but
> turns out that in one of the updates a program called Windows Genuine 
> Advantage
> was added to XP. Windows Genuine Advantage scans the system to see if 
> the OS
> matches the original setup. If not, it flags the key and reports it as 
> invalid. Reports
> on the web say as much as 1 in 5 systems are wrongfully disabled.
>
> I decided to purchase a refurbished machine with XP already installed 
> to replace the
> HP. Guess what it tried to download in the first update? Windows 
> Genuine Advantage.
> I have since disabled all updates. I love XP and will keep it as long 
> as it works. The
> paranoid me thinks that Microsoft is using any excuse to make people 
> upgrade. Who
> knows.
>
>
> Kevin KD8QGX
>
>
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