Me again (905474)

I was going away to get help directly from MS, but they won't help. XP came
with my computer from Great Quality. Great Quality is not listed as an XP
reseller. It is a legal installation from Fry's Electronics, but MS doesn't
like Great Quality anymore, so no manufacturer or vender is responsible to
help with my troubles.

This particular computer is used by a 10 and a 12 year old frequently, so it
has had more troubles than the other one at home. They have downloaded
various poker games and some music junk that slowed it down. It has had
some problems, but many other programs have been updated OK on it recently.

Many other people have received a message that they have a non-genuine copy
of XP and are dealing with that problem. The notification test does not run
successfully on my computer so I get repeated test failure messages. The
test fails, but the computer does not fail the test. I don't see other
people having this problem.

The last suggestion I got here was to run WGA Diagnostic Tool. Is there a
next step for me?

STEPS TAKEN:

1) Edited registry permissions.

2) Manually downloaded + installed #905474

3) Deleted contents of DataStore folder.

4) Ran WGA Diagnostic Tool. Could not copy error to the clipboard
because it was an error window that must be closed before you can start a
new task.

The MS proprietary site was less useful than this newsgroup for working on
this problem.

Microsoft reported somewhere that 2/5ths of users declined 905474,
so I suggest that you not be in the 3/5ths that accept - join the minority.

The WGA diagnostic should not have produced an error window.
Can you find the Great Quality OEM system restore CD? If you can,
hosing out the kids' computer might be the most straightforward fix.

Otherwise you're facing the task of rooting out *all* the malware, and
getting rid of 905474 would be trivial compared to the rest of that job.
Which way do you want to go if there's no quick fix?

"Stumpy" <> wrote in message news:...
>I was going away to get help directly from MS, but they won't help. XP came
> with my computer from Great Quality. Great Quality is not listed as an XP
> reseller. It is a legal installation from Fry's Electronics, but MS doesn't
> like Great Quality anymore, so no manufacturer or vender is responsible to
> help with my troubles.
>
> This particular computer is used by a 10 and a 12 year old frequently, so it
> has had more troubles than the other one at home. They have downloaded
> various poker games and some music junk that slowed it down. It has had
> some problems, but many other programs have been updated OK on it recently.
>
> Many other people have received a message that they have a non-genuine copy
> of XP and are dealing with that problem. The notification test does not run
> successfully on my computer so I get repeated test failure messages. The
> test fails, but the computer does not fail the test. I don't see other
> people having this problem.
>
> The last suggestion I got here was to run WGA Diagnostic Tool. Is there a
> next step for me?
>
> STEPS TAKEN:
>
> 1) Edited registry permissions.
>
> 2) Manually downloaded + installed #905474
>
> 3) Deleted contents of DataStore folder.
>
> 4) Ran WGA Diagnostic Tool. Could not copy error to the clipboard
> because it was an error window that must be closed before you can start a
> new task.
>
> The MS proprietary site was less useful than this newsgroup for working on
> this problem.
>
>

"Michael Jennings" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Microsoft reported somewhere that 2/5ths of users declined 905474,
> so I suggest that you not be in the 3/5ths that accept - join the
> minority.
>
> The WGA diagnostic should not have produced an error window.
> Can you find the Great Quality OEM system restore CD? If you can,
> hosing out the kids' computer might be the most straightforward fix.
>
> Otherwise you're facing the task of rooting out *all* the malware, and
> getting rid of 905474 would be trivial compared to the rest of that job.
> Which way do you want to go if there's no quick fix?
>

Right now I'd settle for getting rid of 905474 and stopping these irritating
notification popups.

"Stumpy" <> wrote in message news:efwRs8%...
>
> "Michael Jennings" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Microsoft reported somewhere that 2/5ths of users declined 905474,
>> so I suggest that you not be in the 3/5ths that accept - join the
>> minority.
>>
>> The WGA diagnostic should not have produced an error window.
>> Can you find the Great Quality OEM system restore CD? If you can,
>> hosing out the kids' computer might be the most straightforward fix.
>>
>> Otherwise you're facing the task of rooting out *all* the malware, and
>> getting rid of 905474 would be trivial compared to the rest of that job.
>> Which way do you want to go if there's no quick fix?
>>
>
> Right now I'd settle for getting rid of 905474 and stopping these irritating
> notification popups.
>

http://patch-info.de/WinXP/Downloads...ninstaller.exe

Save it to disk. Run it. If your malware lets it, it'll do what you're asking.

>>> Microsoft reported somewhere that 2/5ths of users declined 905474,
>>> so I suggest that you not be in the 3/5ths that accept - join the
>>> minority.
>>>
>>> The WGA diagnostic should not have produced an error window.
>>> Can you find the Great Quality OEM system restore CD? If you can,
>>> hosing out the kids' computer might be the most straightforward fix.
>>>
>>> Otherwise you're facing the task of rooting out *all* the malware, and
>>> getting rid of 905474 would be trivial compared to the rest of that job.
>>> Which way do you want to go if there's no quick fix?
>>>
>>
>> Right now I'd settle for getting rid of 905474 and stopping these
>> irritating
>> notification popups.
>>
>
> http://patch-info.de/WinXP/Downloads...ninstaller.exe
>
> Save it to disk. Run it. If your malware lets it, it'll do what you're
> asking.
>
>

Thank you very much. So happy to avoid that broken star logo upon login.
I'll be even happier if this doesn't reoccur next update cycle. MS has me
brainwashed that I must continue some of the security updates.

"Michael Jennings" wrote:

>
> http://patch-info.de/WinXP/Downloads...ninstaller.exe
>
> Save it to disk. Run it. If your malware lets it, it'll do what you're asking.
>
>
>
Hi Michael,
Is this the uninstall patch from ghost by any chance?
Judy

"Judy" <> wrote in message news:87897760-2F43-4C40-B242-...
> "Michael Jennings" wrote:
>>
>> http://patch-info.de/WinXP/Downloads...ninstaller.exe
>>
>> Save it to disk. Run it. If your malware lets it, it'll do what you're asking.
>
> Hi Michael,
> Is this the uninstall patch from ghost by any chance?
> Judy

No. It's from http://patch-info.de/WinXP/2006/06/07/05-47-32.html
Ottmar Freudenberger invited able wary users to examine it in post
news:
>> Freudi has a small program to get rid of Notifications,
>
> FWIW, I'm *no* MVP.
> And yes, you can simply unpack "my" KB905474-uninstaller.exe e.g.
> using WinRAR and have a look into the batch files. It's not more
> or less than this.
>
> But we may have to differentiate the WGA program as such and the
> "famous" WGA Notification tool. The latter is the one not only I'm
> criticizing, especially how that "tool" has been and is introduced
> by MS. Forcing a "test" tool as an critical update is far, far away
> from "trustworthy computing" - despite from the problems users have
> in installing that (updated) tool (almost not be aware of what they
> are really trying to install).
>
> I really urge you and everyone else who feels to comment on the WGA
> program as such and especially KB905474 to post into the WGA web
> forums (http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/).
>
> Bye,
> Freudi

Oh, ok. Thanks so much.
Judy

"Michael Jennings" wrote:

> No. It's from http://patch-info.de/WinXP/2006/06/07/05-47-32.html
> Ottmar Freudenberger invited able wary users to examine it in post
> news:
> >> Freudi has a small program to get rid of Notifications,