[nfbcs] Windows Genuine Advantage Notification question

[Steve Jacobson]

I am guessing that the Windows Advantage validation software is not installing.  I've been asked once on one of my 
computers and that's all.  It is a tool that helps Microsoft validate that your copy of Windows isn't pirated.  In return, you 
get some updates and can download some things that you couldn't if it couldn't be shown that you have a legally 
activated copy.  Some of Microsoft's downloads are really just small stubs that when you install them, go back out to the 
internet to get what they need.  Therefore, even if it has been downloaded, be sure that you have a good internet 
connection even while installing.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:22:26 -0400, pajohns1 at vt.edu wrote:

>Group,

>        What exactly is Windows Genuine Advantage Notification?  On my XP 
>machine I've been prompted to run updates probably close to a dozen times 
>over the last few weeks and the only thing that appears in the list of the 
>updates is this Windows Genuine Advantage.  At the rate it keeps asking to 
>update I am starting to wonder if the program isn't buggy or worse.

>Thanks,

>Patrick 


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