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Computer Blog - thebroadroom.net: Various Microsoft Hell issues
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. TheBroadroom.Net urges you to use your own instincts,
common sense, and willingness to take risks when applying any of the information below.
Various Microsoft Hell issues
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, January 27, 2006
at 8:51 PM (Pacific)
Okay...where to start.
1.) Trying to install the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool. Now I could care less whether this gets installed or not. Most of the material I found under Google concerned people trying to bypass the tool. Not what I need...the computer has a "real" Windows OS installed in it. So who cares?
The Automatic Updates thing downloaded the (!@#$%) Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool. Fine. Then, it wouldn't install it.
I danced around this crap for hours. Here's what I found and it worked:
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130) install fails in Windows Update
The part where someone linked here to install the Validation Tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/whyValidate.aspx
Okay, fine, that installed the damn Tool. It's there and no longer shows up in the Automatic Updates thing.
I still haven't gotten it to install any other Updates yet, however.
I have a strong suspicion it has to do with Norton Internet Security. Naturally, the Symantec site was totally useless (please read prior posts). Their sole suggestion from what I got out of it, was to allow the Windows Updates site to have information about your browser.
Excuse me.
WINDOWS UPDATES ALREADY HAS INFORMATION ABOUT MY BROWSER. IT ALREADY DOWNLOADED THE STUFF. I JUST CAN'T INSTALL IT WITHOUT BUSTING A GUT.
Now for the cool stuff.
Restore Your Computer's Performance with Windows XP
The part where you can go here:
Startup Applications List
...and actually look up all those esoteric items that get loaded when you start up your computer. As you would expect, a large number of them so far, are not necesssary.Labels: microsoft
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