-=PCTechTalk=- Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore

Hi Kids,
    MS had a major breakdown of their Windows Genuine Advantage site a 
couple of days ago.  The effect is that people have had their Windows 
XP/Vista (both 32 & 64 bit) installations declared invalid by the 
service/feature/annoyance of WGA.

    I haven't seen anything come through here to indicate that this affected 
any of you fine folks, but if it did, the article below says it's been fixed 
and you should re-validate your copy of WinXP/Vista at the WGA page 
(http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/).  Please note that the re-validation 
only applies if your copy was ruled invalid by WGA while the site was on the 
fritz.  This would have happened if you had tried to update certain parts of 
Windows or other specific MS products during that time.  You would 
definitely know if you were affected.

http://shrunklink.com/aave

    Of course, if this doesn't apply to you, please count your blessings and 
disregard this post.       :O)

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"

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