Last night I was switching a friend of my parents off AOL over to a local service provider and decided I really needed to do more extensive clean-up on their screwed up system (thanks AOL). Their computer is several years old and memory resident and auto-update features are slowing it down. (especially when they logon since they only have dialup). I found out they haven’t done an update since… well since they got the computer (even though they had windowsupdate set to autodo-everything).
At any rate… so I go to do the updates manually and it doens’t pass the windows genuine software thing. It’s a Dell machine and all their software is legal (and is still the original software install) is totally legit but all I get is "sorry, windows genuine advnatage windows validation failed). How do I get past this bullshit? Thanks for the help (I was pissed since it was the culination of 7 hours of work at1:00am last night and had planned for it to run updates all night)
We were going through the normal “windowsupdate” option in Win XP. So I’m not sure if that link runs something separate from what we already tried. Anyone have a phone number (like the one they make you call when you’ve reinstalled your OS too many times)?
It won’t work from a Dell going through the regular windowsupdate option in WinXP. You have to go to that link, or another on their website, and click Validate.
I fucking hate Macs. I am looking at them from a software developer standpoint, not from a normal user’s standpoint. I really, really hate them. Steve jobs… don’t even get me started on a rant on how shitty mac development is and what a complete half-assed job Apple has done.
