Installed new Activation Technologies . . .

[Frostmourne]

I installed this update because I was a little concerned about my copy being genuine since I purchased from a third party....but to my relief, my copy is genuine. I then promptly uninstalled it...so now we will see if this causes me any problems. I know that at some point I will be forced to reinstall this update, but I guess there is not much I can do about it, but again...just hate the idea of having no control over what is installed and running on my pc..yes maybe we are just "renting" the software from microsoft..but they do not pay for my Internet access, or for my hardware.

The OS is more important than your hardware or internet - without the OS, your hardware would do little more than beep.

 

[seekermeister]

I installed this update because I was a little concerned about my copy being genuine since I purchased from a third party....but to my relief, my copy is genuine. I then promptly uninstalled it...so now we will see if this causes me any problems. I know that at some point I will be forced to reinstall this update, but I guess there is not much I can do about it, but again...just hate the idea of having no control over what is installed and running on my pc..yes maybe we are just "renting" the software from microsoft..but they do not pay for my Internet access, or for my hardware.

From what I have read, uninstalling the update doesn't eliminate WAT. Once installed, it remains indefinitely.

 

[Frostmourne]

I installed this update because I was a little concerned about my copy being genuine since I purchased from a third party....but to my relief, my copy is genuine. I then promptly uninstalled it...so now we will see if this causes me any problems. I know that at some point I will be forced to reinstall this update, but I guess there is not much I can do about it, but again...just hate the idea of having no control over what is installed and running on my pc..yes maybe we are just "renting" the software from microsoft..but they do not pay for my Internet access, or for my hardware.

From what I have read, uninstalling the update doesn't eliminate WAT. Once installed, it remains indefinitely.

That sounds right. The OS isn't yours anyway, its licensed.

 

[seekermeister]

Frostmourne,

That sounds right. The OS isn't yours anyway, its licensed.

That only means that we do not own the rights to the OS as a whole. A license does mean that I or anyone who buys it does own the copy that they possess. If that were not true, then we would be required to pay rent on it.

 

[The Apathetic]

Is this update supposed to show up in windows update? Cause I check daily and it still hasn't appeared..

 

[seekermeister]

Is this update supposed to show up in windows update? Cause I check daily and it still hasn't appeared..

If it were actually installed, it would appear, but it is not installed by default, it requires that you select it among the available updates listed when it says that updates are available.

EDIT: If you have automatic updates, it should not install on it's own.

 

[Frostmourne]

Is this update supposed to show up in windows update? Cause I check daily and it still hasn't appeared..

Try looking in the optional category.

 

[The Apathetic]

I meant, I click on check for updates and no new updates show up other than the optional language packages so far..

Latest update that became available to me was
Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 for x64-based Systems (KB973688) on 2/‎26

 

[CarlTR6]

From what I have read, uninstalling the update doesn't eliminate WAT. Once installed, it remains indefinitely.

I'm not sure about that. I decided to bite the bullet and install it. Promptly, my sound went out and Windows could not diagnose the problem. I am NOT saying WAT caused this; I don't know what the cause was. I restored to a point four days ago. All is functioning well. Windows update tells me [FONT=&quot]KB971033[/FONT] is waiting for download. I did not find anything in services to indicate it is installed.

 

[seekermeister]

I'll take your word for it, because I have no desire to experiment with it. However, it should be noted that a System Restore is not the same as uninstalling an update. You are fortunate that the problem occurred right away, instead of a month or year down the road, when it would be easier to reinstall the OS, rather than deal with the consequences of a restore...if your list of restore points went back far enough.

 

[CarlTR6]

Update: I did some exploring and [FONT=&quot]KB971033[/FONT] does show up in System Information for Windows (sysinternals); it does not show up in Unistall Updates. I will do more exploring.

At any rate, it did not give me a false positive.

 

[Sbrideau]

Just a question, does this update only check the activation or will it check it for some programs too? I just want to know how far it goes.

 

[CarlTR6]

Strictly Windows Seven as far as I know. I have not read anything that indicated otherwise.

 

[Frostmourne]

Installed it on a fresh install of Home Premium x64 OEM along with other updates - no issues.

 

[The Apathetic]

Just got a bunch of new updates today in windows update, still no Activation update yet..

 

[CarlTR6]

Just got a bunch of new updates today in windows update, still no Activation update yet..

We must be the test market.

 

[seekermeister]

Just got a bunch of new updates today in windows update, still no Activation update yet..

We must be the test market.

That could be because we are more gullible than most of the world.

 

[dood]

IT rule #437

NEVER install unnecessary patches until you are confident they wont bone up the system.

Needless to say..I've read about false positives. I'm not interested in an MS flub up bringing down my organizations machines.
Security? Criticals? Compatibility patches? Thats what I'm more concerned about.
Maintaining MS's revenue stream and phoning home? Not so much.

I run an enterprise box at work..Ya..I patched it..it was ok..but I'm not letting it into the wild on any other test machines...yet...or ever.

Just my .02

 

[The Apathetic]

Just got a bunch of new updates today in windows update, still no Activation update yet..

We must be the test market.

That could be because we are more gullible than most of the world.

It's probably cause MS is afraid of me I guess

That or it's actually like what Carl said, they are testing it on a bunch of 7 users before the full release, but how could MS test a software without the user's permission!! It's true that they gave you the choice to install it or not, but they (probably) never said in the update description that they are testing it on your pc!! Or did they??

 

[CarlTR6]

I don't think it is as much of a test of the code (as in a beta test) as it is a test of consumer reaction. Maybe there a legal reasons for releasing it in the US first - as a voluntary thing.