WGA temporary fix

WGA temporary fix
http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...ce-outage.aspx

1) Delete the data.dat file from C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data (The drive
letter will depend on where the OS was installed)

2) Revisit
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/dow.../validate.aspx to confirm
whether the machine is genuine.

3) Run wgatray.exe /b from the command line to ensure that the
latest validation is updated for WGA Notifications. This command may
be absent from the user’s machine and should not be considered an
error. Please ensure that this is run as an Administrator. A reboot
may be required to remove all non-genuine notifications.


Further info on False positives
http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...positives.aspx



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Greg Rozelle wrote:
> WGA temporary fix
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...ce-outage.aspx
>
> 1) Delete the data.dat file from C:\Documents and Settings\All
> Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data (The drive
> letter will depend on where the OS was installed)
>
> 2) Revisit
> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/dow.../validate.aspx to confirm
> whether the machine is genuine.
>
> 3) Run wgatray.exe /b from the command line to ensure that the
> latest validation is updated for WGA Notifications. This command may
> be absent from the user’s machine and should not be considered an
> error. Please ensure that this is run as an Administrator. A reboot
> may be required to remove all non-genuine notifications.
>
>
> Further info on False positives
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...positives.aspx
>
>
>
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This latest issue is fixable only on the ms end. It is a server issue,
not a client issue.
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norm

You may as well stop posting this to each thread where people[le are having
this particular problem. The fix doesn't apply in this instance.

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"Greg Rozelle" <> wrote in message
news:Wg_zi.4451$ ...
> WGA temporary fix
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...ce-outage.aspx
>
> 1) Delete the data.dat file from C:\Documents and Settings\All
> Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data (The drive
> letter will depend on where the OS was installed)
>
> 2) Revisit
> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/dow.../validate.aspx to confirm
> whether the machine is genuine.
>
> 3) Run wgatray.exe /b from the command line to ensure that the
> latest validation is updated for WGA Notifications. This command may
> be absent from the user's machine and should not be considered an
> error. Please ensure that this is run as an Administrator. A reboot
> may be required to remove all non-genuine notifications.
>
>
> Further info on False positives
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...positives.aspx
>
>
>
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:17:34 -0400, norm <>
wrote:

>Greg Rozelle wrote:
>> WGA temporary fix
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...ce-outage.aspx
>>
>> 1) Delete the data.dat file from C:\Documents and Settings\All
>> Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data (The drive
>> letter will depend on where the OS was installed)
>>
>> 2) Revisit
>> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/dow.../validate.aspx to confirm
>> whether the machine is genuine.
>>
>> 3) Run wgatray.exe /b from the command line to ensure that the
>> latest validation is updated for WGA Notifications. This command may
>> be absent from the user’s machine and should not be considered an
>> error. Please ensure that this is run as an Administrator. A reboot
>> may be required to remove all non-genuine notifications.
>>
>>
>> Further info on False positives
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...positives.aspx
>>
>>
>>
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>This latest issue is fixable only on the ms end. It is a server issue,
>not a client issue.


Well people could still do 1 &2 and then wait till Tuesday to do
number 3. (Block wgatray.exe from accessing the Internet until
Tuesday). The bad think is they won't be able to install software
that requires WGA.

Greg Rozelle


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The links and fix you are posting are for a problem with XP. They have
nothing to do with the current situation with WGA.

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"Greg Rozelle" <> wrote in message
news:Wg_zi.4451$ ...
> WGA temporary fix
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...ce-outage.aspx
>
> 1) Delete the data.dat file from C:\Documents and Settings\All
> Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data (The drive
> letter will depend on where the OS was installed)
>
> 2) Revisit
> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/dow.../validate.aspx to confirm
> whether the machine is genuine.
>
> 3) Run wgatray.exe /b from the command line to ensure that the
> latest validation is updated for WGA Notifications. This command may
> be absent from the user's machine and should not be considered an
> error. Please ensure that this is run as an Administrator. A reboot
> may be required to remove all non-genuine notifications.
>
>
> Further info on False positives
> http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/20...positives.aspx
>
>
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Update
According to Carey

problem has been fixed


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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:30:59 -0400, "Richard Urban"
<> wrote:

>You may as well stop posting this to each thread where people[le are having
>this particular problem. The fix doesn't apply in this instance.

According to some other poster. That fix would of have worked.
That site didn't say for xp only. The problems been fixed as I said
above.





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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:32:11 -0400, Greg Rozelle <>
wrote:

>Update
>According to Carey
>
>problem has been fixed

So we are just suppose to forget and forgive Microsoft's stupidity
now?

It is long past the time consumers DEMAND Microsoft dump their broken
activation and snooping schemes.

Adam Albright wrote:

>
>
> So we are just suppose to forget and forgive Microsoft's stupidity
> now?

I sure hope you had time to short the one or two shares of MS stock you
might of accidentally bought...hahaha...lol!
>
> It is long past the time consumers DEMAND Microsoft dump their broken
> activation and snooping schemes.

Yeah, you tell'em drunken mr genius.
Frank

Adam Albright wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:32:11 -0400, Greg Rozelle <>
> wrote:
>
>> Update
>> According to Carey
>>
>> problem has been fixed
>
> So we are just suppose to forget and forgive Microsoft's stupidity
> now?
>
> It is long past the time consumers DEMAND Microsoft dump their broken
> activation and snooping schemes.
>

<It's not going to happen old man, and you know it.>