[Gllug] OT: WGA

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

On 28/12/10 19:12, John Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 06:24:29PM +0000, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> <snip> 
>> Oh and, why would you block WGA? If you're running legit software at
>> best it's pointless, at worst it can prevent you from getting updates,
>> download and free(beer) software from MS.
> Because very occasionally it (or the hardware change detection in XP)
> goes wrong and you have to waste an hour or so finding out what is
> wrong and being on the phone to Microsoft to get the OS re-activated.
>

Must be pretty rare then, I've tripped reactivation maybe two or three
times in a decade of working all day with mostly XP home computers. All
of those incidents were due to hardware replacements, all of which were
sorted in under ten minutes. I'm not sure going out of my way to disable
WGA on the hundreds of machines I've installed in the last ten years
would have saved me any time on balance.

I've never seen it go wrong on a machine with a legit COA & a legit install.

Roger.
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