Gaaaah!
Anyone heard of Microsoft Update KB905474? It’s the Windows Genuine Advantage update. Basically it puts a nag message on your login screen if it decides your copy of Windows is not genuine.
No problem, I thought, all three of my copies of Windows have come direct from Microsoft so there can be no problem!……………….. However, (You knew there’d be a ‘however’ didn’t you!). KB905474 has decided that the copy of Windows on one of my PC’s is not genuine! I checked the validation page on the Microsoft site and it says that it is. I downloaded and ran the ‘Genuine Advantage Diagnostic’ - that says it’s genuine, but I still get the nag screen on login.
So far I have had an open call log with Microsoft for four days, they’ve given me an alternative licence key, it don’t like that one either, they’ve given me instructions how to remove the update - great, that fixed the problem, only windows update put it straight back on again!
It’s doing my head in, there are a lot of posts on the Microsoft newsgroups, the software is clearly flawed. I have the horrible feeling I’m going to end up reformatting the hard disk and starting agin!