Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA)
By: Staff
Date: February 29, 2007
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There have been many forms for “jumping” the activation of Windows but with the disadvantage that if you did it, in the future when you went to install a Service Pack would not allow you to install it.
With the arrival of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Windows Update 5,0 arrived which valued the product key of Windows and verifies that she is in favor authorized of Microsoft, and if it is thus, will allow you to make the updates by means of Update Windows. A process similar to this is the one that will be used in Windows Genuine Advantage programs pilot.
This program will be applied to the zone of unloading of microsoft.com and it will not affect the updates of security, which will continue with no need being provided to the users of automatic form and of validation. In order to promote this program and power to make a will it, in the unloading area incentives of Software will be added that if they are desired to unload will be necessary their validation by means of WGA.
At the moment some of which they are available are: Microsoft Photo Store 3 for Windows, Winter Fun Pack 2004, and Discount of 50% in games of Zone.com, among others.Process Windows Genuine Advantage which does is to validate that the installed copy of Windows correctly has been activated by Microsoft and the product key is correct, if verifies it then will send us to the unloading page, if on the contrary it did not verify it, sends us to a page to try to verify that we are using a copy of legal Windows.
This one process, does not affect corporative clients who use license Volume keys (VLK) since these will be validated automatically whenever key VLK is not in the denominated “black list” of Microsoft. Process Windows Genuine Advantage does not compile information of the user, solely uses the key of installation and key of activation, leaving to a side any other data of the user of the machine.
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