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Peter Foldes
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Yep. That is so true. I encountered a lot of people with these issues in the
newsgroups. That was a move by MS which was really not needed
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"Alias" <aka@hewhoismasked&anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> On 06/14/2010 06:27 PM, Tim Slattery wrote:
>> I have to agree with that one. It may have been critically important
>> for Microsoft, but definitely NOT for their users.
>>
>
> It was just another of Microsoft's sneaky moves. As I was running a legit copy of
> XP and had some good luck, it didn't affect me but a lot of people got false
> positives from WGA/N. Another sneaky thing they do is make it so that Auto Updates
> are MUCH slower if you haven't got WGA/N installed.
>
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> Alias
Yep. That is so true. I encountered a lot of people with these issues in the
newsgroups. That was a move by MS which was really not needed
--
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"Alias" <aka@hewhoismasked&anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> On 06/14/2010 06:27 PM, Tim Slattery wrote:
>> I have to agree with that one. It may have been critically important
>> for Microsoft, but definitely NOT for their users.
>>
>
> It was just another of Microsoft's sneaky moves. As I was running a legit copy of
> XP and had some good luck, it didn't affect me but a lot of people got false
> positives from WGA/N. Another sneaky thing they do is make it so that Auto Updates
> are MUCH slower if you haven't got WGA/N installed.
>
> --
> Alias