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How do you disable WGA??? I have a OEM copy of Home Edition that I
cannot activate because I believe it is a pirate copy. I have 2 days
left for activation. what happens after two days does the OS shut
down?? thanks for your help Norm
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:35:11 +0100, Alias
<aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote:
>Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> Alias
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>> That would be auto-update critical updates.. if you take a pirated version
>> (the Pro 'corporate') to the Windows Update site to manually retrieve
>> updates, WGA will weed it out and not give access..
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>Not true, sorry. All one need do is disable WGA and you're in like flint.
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>> There are people who deliberately deceive by telephone activating OEM and
>> retail versions on more than one computer at home and, most likely, they do
>> get updates.. good for them, but I have no doubt that they would squawk like
>> all hell if somebody was to illegally appropriate stuff of theirs..
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>Don't misunderstand me; I am not condoning it. I am just clarifying what
>can and cannot be done technically. The moral and ethical issue is a
>different story.
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>Alias
>
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