The GA will automatically be downloaded, and you will be prompted to install
it, when doing a Widnows update. If you just did a clean install, you might
have to run the update routine several times. Microsoft never got the idea,
that it would be easier to get ONE BIG update. Many timnes, you are
updating, simply to realize, you have to update, the update, you just
installed. OK, maybe you know all of this.
If you want to check if the system is all up-to-date, simøly press the
Start-button (win kiy), and choose 'windows update'. On the site that opens,
click the 'express' button, and give the system time to do its job. When
finished working, it automatically opens a new webpage, and there you will
choose the 'install' button. Then follow whatever instructions are given on
your screen. Repeat the steps above, till the page tells you, there are no
more updates for your system. Somewhere through these updates, the Genuine
Advantage (GA) will be part of your 'critical' updates.
If you don't want all this hazzle, make sure your 'automatic updates' are
set to ON, and that the system will install them automatically. Within a few
days, your system will atuomatically download the GA as part of the updates,
and you will be asked to accept the installation of it.
First speaking of updates, if you - instead of using the standard
windows-update webpage - rather use the Microsoft.update page, it will do an
even deeper update, including your office installation. I will see if I can
find the link, and post it.
Hopes this helps, if not please ask.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neville" <[email protected]>
To: "David" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: Window-Eyes Freezing on startup
Hi,
I have just had to do a clean install of WXP Home last week so probably
Genuine Advantage is not installed. Is it on the WXP disc or is it
something that needs to be done on the Microsoft site?
In short, how is it accomplished?
Yes, it is a genuine disc.
Thanks
Neville.
David wrote:
Even not having the latest updates, for Windows, might cause some of your
'freezing up' troubles. Besides, you won't have the security updates,
either, putting your system at risk.
Go ahead, don't install the GA, but you will be exposed to security
issues (could even be more malicious than the 'knowledge gathering' you
are afraid of, which may not even be ralistic), you won't receive the
newest updates, and you WILL NOT get rid of the reminder, to install it.
The GA is there, to ensure that your Windows is a legal copy. It will
check certain things about your stystem, and verify that this is in
accordance with teh database Microsoft already has on your actual
installation. Many software manufacturers nwaday uses this technology, to
make sure, of preventing piracy. Compare it to the license plate on your
car. You could dismount it, and your car will still be running. But you
might not be getting anything if the car is stolen, you might have
trouble in certain situations with the police, and most truely, noone
would think your car is legal, inviting thieves to do what they want. The
license plate is there for a reason; the GA is there for a reason. No
you don't HAVE TO install it, but what are the benefits? What are the
gains and losses? I agree, we don't have to install EVERYTHING that we
are invited to put on our loaded systems. And some of it is mere
personal/private information collection. Many manufacturers and webpages,
tell you to leave a ton of unnecessary info, or ask you to run a certain
ActiveX or small piece of software, apparently to give you certain
benefits. Your being causious, is a good thing; hence, keep on being. But
sometimes, the stuff you are asked to instqall or the info you are told
to enter, is necessary for a good reason; i.e the license plate on a car,
the key for your front-door, your social insurance number (on your health
card, by all means not on any webpage), and, in this instance, the GA on
your PC. Would you have left your front door unlocked in the night,
simply because you didn't want to leave the thieves the JJOY of breaking
in; rather letting them walk right in?
Hope this helps, letting you make an informed decision.
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