Dodgy Windows Or Office? Don't Update...

[paulr33]

ive had a few friends recently get locked out of their windows & office

just a reminder if you have a dodgy windows XP or office xp / 2003

that you should not update it via windows update - make sure you disable it

if you keep getting updates, it will eventually come up with the windows geniune thingy (or office)

and it will lock you out, thus you cant use it

you will only get locked out, when its trying to do updates etc, so if you never do windows update / office update - then a non legit key is fine and will work

so if you are using warezd / keygend / hackd etc copies, disable all the updates

and dont run any updates. most of the updates are only useful if your pc is direct connected to the internet (and not nat'd)

so for most, they updates arent really that exciting. source your driver updates from your hardware vendor website instead of windows update

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

Yes true Paul, as I did an update and my MSO was not legit so I uninstalled the software.

And I think it leaves some sorta "save memory file" in your Registry so when you go reinstall the same "copy" software, it detects it as non genuine.

You might have to download a Registry Cleaning software to get rid of the "save memory file" in the registry, then reinstall the program.

[R31Nismoid]

You can deselect the Windows Genuine part of the updates

[dezz]

I've got the 'Get genuine office' icon in my taskbar...been there for months now....hasn't locked me out of anything

[ss07]

Or get a mac

[cosmokram3r]

or you could have the updates because they are pretty important and just run the windows genuine advantage fix eg. Windows.Genuine.Advantage.Validation.v1.9.0040.0.CRACKED.REPACK-DS9

works fine and u can still run all the updates and download from the microsoft website

[Downforce]

if you want to run an alternative to windows update try autopatcher.com

[_Ryan_]

Or get a mac

I work for IBM and use a mac at home, enough said

I heard from someone that you can get office 2003 keys for free due to age, but i have not verified this.

Openoffice.org is an option

[funkymonkey]

welcome to standard windows piracy procedures, circa 2001.

but in case you do wanna run updates, you can always use http://windizupdate.com

[Birds]

I just let it update. Everytime it installs the genuine advantage crap on me and I get stuck with that icon in the task tray, I go to the system32 folder and delete the executable file (starts with wga). You have to be quick though, gotta end task on it first and then *immediately* delete the file so it doesn't have time to reload itself.