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Journal SEWilco's Journal: Windows Genuine Advantage forced update 2

Journal by SEWilco on Thursday January 10, 2008 @09:49PM

The boss gave me one of those machines which runs Microsoft Windows. A week or two ago an Update showed up which tried to install Windows Genuine Advantage. Not wanting my machine disabled due to some random burp, I cancelled the update. Now more Updates showed up, but the WGA install is still in the way and blocking further updates. What's in this WGA update?

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Self-induced updates? (Score:2)

by SEWilco ( 27983 ) writes:

Oh. The non-WGA updates installed themselves today, then kept nattering at me that the system needed to reboot due to the updates. WGA update still waiting for permission to install.
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  by plover ( 150551 ) * writes:
  
  You can cancel the update, and tick off the box marked "don't show me these updates again." That seemed to placate mine for a while.
  But eventually I had to install Windows Media Player 10 for an online lecture series (the stupid school bought a server package that is 100% I.E.-only) and I was forced to succumb to the WGA install. Fortunately, it hasn't broken anything yet, although it feels like a sliver under my fingernail just to have it installed.
  The good news is a reinstallation of Windows does in

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