re: Genuine Advantage Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:57 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Keith Stanier (1651 messages posted) Well I haven't let Vista anywhere near Windows Genuine Advantage not that I have anything to hide its genuine. I have had problems with my WinXP machine with this. Ok I did buy it of eBay but it looked a genuine hologrammed CD with the COA label. I download all the usual updates and that install WGA and did a restart. Then you get the message this Windows cound be counterfeit click here to verify. It goes to M$ and it says illegal. How can it be illegal if I registered the genuine number with M$ when I installed it. I emailed M$ and they said its an OEM version, yes so what its still genuine, they would do anything. You can't uninstall WGA you have to do a system restore to remove it. With my Vista it wasn't to install WGA for Office well they can forget that as well. I never get that on WinXP with the same Office installed. Written in response to: Genuine Advantage (Gio7707: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:23 am) Responses to this message: re: Genuine Advantage (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 8:29 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Genuine Advantage (Gio7707: Tue, Mar 23, 2010, 10:23 am) re: Genuine Advantage (Keith Stanier: Tue, Mar 23, 2010, 10:57 am) re: Genuine Advantage (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, Apr 24, 2010, 8:29 pm) re: Genuine Advantage (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, Apr 24, 2010, 8:24 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum