![]() ![]() ![]() In Windows 7, WGA is renamed Windows Activation Technology. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is an anti-piracy system created by Microsoft that enforces online validation of the licensing of several recent Microsoft Windows operating systems when accessing several services, such as Windows Update, and downloading Windows components from the Microsoft Download Center. If a box appears saying "Windows is already activated," it means your Windows XP is genuine. Type the following command in Run without quotation marks: "oobe/msoobe /a". Check whether your Windows XP is genuine (optional). ![]() Enter your genuine key in the New Key box and click on Update. Of course, hell will freeze over before Microsoft actually *improves* (read: reverts back to an older version) their product. What Microsoft needs to do is just release an updated XP, including drivers, software updates, and whatever else it takes to bring it up to date, and maybe clean up some of their bloat while their at it (removing/disabling pointless services right from the start would be a good idea…). ![]() I figure disabling support for WGA at the end of XP’s life is a possibility, leaving unactivated systems, and seems to be something Microsoft would do, but hopefully they don’t. With Microsoft already eager to drop support of this operating in favor of trying to force its pathetic successor onto us, who knows how support will be in the future. Even with SP3, it still seems that XP won’t support SATA. Good question… I’ve had plans on buying a spare copy of XP Pro (Full version) sometime in the future, so I’ll have it and not have to worry about this damn upgrade version and my old Win9x disc for “verification.” The biggest thing holding me back is… how future-ready will XP be? PCs seem to be switching to SATA, which WinXP doesn’t support without a boot disk, and there’s no way in hell I want a floppy drive to be in my future machines. ![]()
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