[CS-FSLUG] "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification" via autoupdate?

[Jason P. Franklin]

Tim Wrote:

    "However they handle it, they have enough grace in the matter to
    allow some slack."


Oh stop it!  You're messing with my well tailored disdain for all things 
MS.  Upsets my view of the universe. ;-)

Jason P. Franklin
Husband/Father/Missionary
Westwood Bible Fellowship
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Tim Young wrote:
> There are two ways you would get "rejected."  If someone stole your 
> license number, or if you have installed that license on a lot of 
> computers.  In either case, Microsoft does have a number to call to 
> straighten it out.  While I have never needed to call that number 
> myself, the people I know who have called it have not had too difficult 
> a time working through it.  I guess the assumption is that, if you go 
> through with calling them, you probably had a legal license.  They will 
> have you read the license number off, ask you where you got the license, 
> and such.  Not too much trouble.
>
> For myself, I have no problems recommending that you install it. 
>
> They do have a pretty well documented list of things that they check 
> for.  I read it once and it was pretty straight-forward.  It was 
> something like seven bench-marks from your system.  Kind-of like a 
> hardware thumb-print.  They allow certain percentages to change before 
> they decide you have installed the OS on a different computer.  And they 
> allow you to install it on multiple computers before you are 
> "rejected."  I have successfully transferred a copy of XP from a desktop 
> to a laptop, and then to a second laptop (the first computer turned into 
> my firewall, the first laptop died.)  All of that without getting a 
> single rejection.  However they handle it, they have enough grace in the 
> matter to allow some slack.
>
>     - Tim Young
>
>
>   
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