Upgrading to Windows XP

June 11, 2008

If you have a laptop with some kind of Windows Vista version on it and you would like for your laptop to actually function you might have been considering an upgrade to Windows XP.

If you have SATA hard drives and no floppy, here is some good advice regarding drivers you need to consider.

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Windows Genuine Advantage

August 26, 2007

And don’t we know to whose advantage Windows Genuine Advantage is. But what happens when Windows Genuine Advantage doesn’t work?

Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user even said that his installation was invalidated by the service.

We contacted our sources at Microsoft, who told us off the record that the company is aware of a major WGA server outage affecting users across the globe. The Windows Genuine Advantage support forum has exploded with complaints, as a result, and Phil Liu, WGA project manager, says that he won’t sleep until the problem is fixed. Windows Vista and XP are affected, 32- and 64-bit versions.

I bet Phil Liu is one very tired son of a gun.

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