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Important update notification
18-05-2010 10:52 AM
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Re: Important update notification
18-05-2010 2:20 PM
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edit: am still here . nearly died when i watched the system, control panel liscence disappear for a second or 2 and then come back thank god
Re: Important update notification
18-05-2010 3:42 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Important update notification
18-05-2010 3:48 PM
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Re: Important update notification
18-05-2010 7:16 PM
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Re: Important update notification
18-05-2010 9:04 PM
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Why aren't Service packs called "a humongous load of patches"?
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Important update notification
19-05-2010 7:56 PM
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"...the main controversy of the KB971033 is that the update will “call home” to Microsoft every 90 days initially...which allows that WAT system to download latest and updated signatures that are used to identify new activation exploits"
Re: Important update notification
21-05-2010 12:22 PM
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For the record: it doesnt do what its supposed to, I did a test for the guys at http://www.sevenforums.com where i Dual booted my legally activated Windows 7 with a fresh install that I activated by more "dubious" methods, this update was released ages ago.... to date it still hasnt picked up that the "dubious" OS is illegal (I have kept it on there and logged into it once a day just to see if it picks it up, so far, Windows swears its legal)
Just a word of caution, its impossible to remove once its on there without a clean install.
General concensus on Sevenforums is that there will come a point where you have to install it to get updates
Re: Important update notification
21-05-2010 4:07 PM
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Why not include a web-site link to update a special "required" piece of software that checks with a spamware host?
Damn!
Microsoft thought of it first!
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Important update notification
25-05-2010 9:20 AM
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Quote This update is rendering at least some Win7 64bit machines useless as it declares that the OS is counterfeit. It would be worthwhile blocking this update until a fix is in place.
Re: Important update notification
25-05-2010 1:51 PM
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Personally I don't want any s/w that phones home every 90 days to see if I can still use what I paid for
And it is MY PC I will install what I want on it, including but not limited to Linux (in various distros if I want to) Just because M$ Walks all over the MBR when you install it, and will bork any non M$ OS on your PC for me is just another reason to avoid it. OR are they AFRAID that if you try Linux you may just not want to go back?
Re: Important update notification
25-05-2010 4:00 PM
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Re: Important update notification
25-05-2010 5:29 PM
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I find their explanations about why I should apply each fix to be very weak.
They usually just say "if you don't do this, then awful things will happen".
So most Windows updates don't get applied by me.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Important update notification
26-05-2010 1:14 PM
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