Jim Pivonka wrote:
> On a Windows XP SP2 machine I administer the April updates were successfully
> downloaded and installed on April 17th. Today, April 24, Microsoft Update
> showed a new update was available; it turned out to be a new WGAV
> installation.
>
> The WGAV tool downoad was successful. However the installation failed.
>
> I believe that the general fixes for Windows Update install failures are
> inapplicable in this case - Windows Install procedures worked fine for the
> updates, including MS Office updates, 7 days ago.
>
> Therefore it seems this install failure is specific to the new "Windows
> Genuine Advantage Validation" tool package.
>
> Can you provide me an explanation for this package specific failure, and a
> work around to deal with it?
Why did you even allow that crap to be installed in the first place.
WGA/N is not only spyware, it does *nothing* to improve XP. SP3, which
you say is not installed, however, does improve XP.
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