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To: mvpel

Correction:

Many CAN'T install it because of a bug in installing the Genuine Windows Verification system. Without it Windows assumes you have a pirated copy of windows even if you don't.

Microsoft has yet to correct the problem or offer a workable work around.


139 posted on 08/16/2005 3:16:30 PM PDT by sharktrager (My life is like a box of chocolates, but someone took all the good ones.)
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To: sharktrager

Many CAN'T install it because of a bug in installing the Genuine Windows Verification system. Without it Windows assumes you have a pirated copy of windows even if you don't.

It's been hacked, already.

Websearch windows verification hack.


163 posted on 08/16/2005 3:22:43 PM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: sharktrager
Many CAN'T install it because of a bug in installing the Genuine Windows Verification system. Without it Windows assumes you have a pirated copy of windows even if you don't.

Microsoft has yet to correct the problem or offer a workable work around.

Dude, there's a workaround.

219 posted on 08/16/2005 3:40:16 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: sharktrager

"Many CAN'T install it because of a bug in installing the Genuine Windows Verification system. Without it Windows assumes you have a pirated copy of windows even if you don't."

Even if it has been hacked, Microsoft sucks bigtime. They have the hugest army of programming soldiers one could imagine, and this stuff keeps happening year after year. Critical components buggy and insecure.

It makes you think they don't care, since they're basically a monopoly and people have to keep buying their stuff since only a few people will use Linux and LaTeX instead of Windoze and MS-Office. Could that be it? naaah....

Here's another way to get around all these bugs and worms:
http://www.apple.com


474 posted on 08/17/2005 2:36:01 AM PDT by MIT-Elephant ("Armed with what? Spitballs?")
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