Hopefully your reinstall will fix the problem. As you can see this is not a
problem reported here and believe me if this was happening generally you
would see huge strings of postings.
"C.B." <notreallyc.b.mullen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Can anyone tell me why my Vista Ultimate is being validated each and
> every day, the same Ultimate retail I have had for the past year? I have
> made no hardware changes for several months and even then I did not have
> to revalidate. It only takes about two seconds for the WGA and each
> validation is reported as successful. Is this the new "nagging" feature
> Microsoft now uses in place of the reduced functionality mode used before?
> If so, I don't think it is working properly since each validation is
> successful.
> I did a reformat and clean install a few days ago for the purpose of
> finding the causative factor of my non-functioning Microsoft fingerprint
> reader. As always, I entered my license key during the install and
> successfully validated the OS online upon completion of the install. I
> have always installed my OS in this manner and have never had any problems
> with validation.
> The only thing I can think of is that one of the latest updates
> contains a new, revamped WGA application and the information reported to
> Microsoft is in some way not being retained in Microsoft's databank. I
> don't mind Microsoft validating my OS on a monthly or bi-monthly basis but
> if this is going to be something done on a daily basis I think I'll just
> move over to OS X. I'd rather use a Linux based OS, with all its
> limitations, than put up with this constant mistrust by Microsoft.
> It makes me feel as though I'm back in grade school waiting for the
> teacher to smack my hand with a ruler. It's irritating as hell. I already
> have one Big Brother (U.S. government) looking over my shoulder every day.
> I neither need nor desire a second one. This is ridiculous.
>
> C.B.
>
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> It is the responsibility and duty of everyone to help the underprivileged
> and unfortunate among us.
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