XP Corporate key problems

[barwick]

WGA has caused some serious issues... I've got XP Corporate running on my PC, and it's a perfectly valid key (I even did the whole "phone microsoft, inactivate XP, and change the key" thing and it still comes back saying it's an invalid key.

Is it possible that there are countless valid XP Corporate keys, but only a certain number of them (stored in a database on a Microsoft server somewhere maybe) that they will accept?

[redxii]

If you are having problems with a corporate key, then contact your administrator or IT department and he or she will straighten out issues with keys issued to the company.

[LLXX]

Phone M$ about it again... with enough complaining I think they'll do something about it.

[Andromeda43]

It's a well known fact that WGA errors about 20% of the time and reports invalid keys where none exist.

I've had three customers, so far, that have experienced this.

WGA can just be removed from your PC and then blocked from downloading again.

I wrote a little batch file to do the dirty deed. (removing WGA)

@Echo off

Cls

rd "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Windows Genuine Advantage\" /S /Q

rd "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\" /S /Q

rem The above lines remove Genuine Advantage from the HD.

del "%windir%\System32\WgaTray.exe" /S /F

Echo: Now, reboot your system to finish the job.

pause

copy the blue lines above into a new Wordpad document and save as KillWGA.bat

Do a system backup or la least make a new Registry restore point before you run the program.

Disable auto updates.

Do a manual update and when it offers to download the WGA program, DE-Select it.

Once de-selected, you'll have to tell MS Update to NOT bother you about it again.

This can't legitimize a bogus install of Windows, but it sure gets rid of the obnoxious WGA warning popup.

Cheers,

Andromeda43