Don't update or download from microsoft website

Yes and they have the people that are running Vista over a barrel. It will reach a point where is you don't update it then it won't work right. Then when you do update it crashes your computer. That is exactly what happened to my Daughters laptop. Most of those updates are nothing but spy ware anyway. I use the XP Pro and I Never update it. Most of the time I don't even run virus protection on it. I keep everything backed up to the "D" drive and if I get a virus I just reformat the "C" drive and reload XP. I would not buy a computer with Vista on it. Art

yes it is true. if you have pirated software. you will have problem when you update directly from internet. fortunately mine is genuine one.

Becareful, you know they have aVirus going around. I wouldn't trust it.

Wow, good thing I don't lend my computer's operating system installer to anyone that I know. I used to use non authentic software but now, I really use one with our desktop. We can still run updates even when we recently reformatted it. I guess that keeping it used with one computer is safer than lending the software to someone or at least, the one who borrowed shouldn't register the software under his ownership while the initial owner's computer is still using their own registered computer.

Okay. That o/s got that warning because it wasn't genuine and it was done by pirated software/cd. I am using a genuine one which I got from my past office for a good work. I am using it and updating my system by microsoft website with no trouble at all! Thank you.

If you used a genuine product, there will be no such message. Genuine product meaning, the original CD. Just try to see how other people loved using pirated products or violating TOS (if I'm not mistaken, one installer CD is for one registered computer) and you will understand that Microsoft is just protecting its interest.

I have Vista on my laptop and I agree it is a pain in the 'proverbial'! The Microsoft I have is genuine. I had my computer set up to automatically update and Microsoft installed a particular update which involved some kind of fingerprint security 'thing' on my laptop that I don't even use. The said update created all sorts of problems which included an annoying window stating that my update was not complete which could not be removed! I had to do a system restore to remove the window and set the computer not to automatically update so that I can police what is going on and download the updates manually and I only use important updates and ignore the rest. This has resolved the issue for now. The other aggravating thing is that Microsoft expects $80 Australian dollars just to look into the problem! Surely not having genuine software wouldn't help matters.

Well,I started a discussion on this topic about turning out automatic updates off.For pirated OS,it will be the good choice to avoid troubles.Your friend should have turned off the updates or he should have ignored that.For me,I have turned off mine.Cheers!

I to agree its is just trap that is set by microfsoft & we fall in to it without using it....i had my own experiences trying update windows components and was succommbed to what you would call as software counterfeiting.....but i hjave on option left for you instead of using the microsoft site to stay updated try some other site else eg..downloads.com ,torrent,etc.....

I have faced this problem few times. The only thing I have to do is to turn of automatic updates. But still this problem appeared so I reinstalled the OS. They I turned on my updates to notify me about updates. Then I am selecting from the updates which should I download.

Yes i also got that problem when i tried to install updates of the windows media player 11 from the windows microsoft website as i too don't have a genuine microsoft version of windows xp. Till now i have not found a solution to counteract that problem. But i just format my pc to avoid that message as it looks very irritating and slows down the system whenever we are playing 3d games.

You can remove the warning by by searching on the internet'wga removal',you will be directed to a website and from there download the software for the removal of the genuine notification. and it's free.

Dude, I have experienced updating my windows with MS automatic update and unfortunately my desktop was infected with a worm virus which I think I got it from windows update. That's why everytime I reformat and clean my PC, I always disable the automatic update after reformatting. =)

My friends have had this issue, the easiest solution is to un-install Microsoft Genuine Tool and to never download it (you can select to never download this update via automatic updates) This way your windows will never be checked. My friend bought his computer from a computer store and he went back to complain because they loaded him with an illegal copy of Windows.

I have never updated nor downloaded any software from microsoft websites ever since i started using a computer.. lol =D Because all along, i've been borrowing my frenz OS cds for my own upgrading and all.. lol =D PLus, i also know that microsoft has gottheir own way of checking and knowing who are not using a legit software and thus i dun download anything from there at all.. ON top of that, i wont buy those original OS too as it's too expensive.. haha =D

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