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Validate Windows
The MS validate keeps popping up on my Win XP pro laptop.
I have a valid key. When I click on the link it takes me to MS Validate but I do not get a web page in Firefox (latest for Win XP), it is blank. How do I resolve this ? |
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NoonMoon wrote:
The MS validate keeps popping up on my Win XP pro laptop. I have a valid key. When I click on the link it takes me to MS Validate but I do not get a web page in Firefox (latest for Win XP), it is blank. How do I resolve this ? Call Microsoft validation via phone? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lice...n-centers.aspx |
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On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 23:58:42 -0400, Paul
wrote: wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 01:19:18 +0100, Good Guy wrote: On 09/04/2018 23:17, NoonMoon wrote: The MS validate keeps popping up on my Win XP pro laptop. I have a valid key. When I click on the link it takes me to MS Validate but I do not get a web page in Firefox (latest for Win XP), it is blank. How do I resolve this ? You must be complete brain dead to not know that WindowsXP is no longer supported by Microsoft. If you haven't activated your copy of Windows XP then your only option is to buy a new machine with Windows 10. You will struggle trying to activate WindowsXP and/or Windows Vista and/or Windows 7. The only products actively supported a Windows 8.1 Windows10 Again Windows 10 has many versions so the users have to use the current versions only. Microsoft is providing Windows as a Service and so the products are retired pretty quickly. Please go and buy a new machine from DELL or HP and your problem is solved for the next 10 years. Good luck. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ They were still validating windoze XP a couple months ago. You just need to use Internet Exploder and you need to be at SP3. Validation (caused by WGA) is slightly different than Activation as far as I know, and was causing trouble back in 2010 (when WinXP was still a thing). There was one item in Windows Update, that once installed, could end up pestering you. Maybe that's what this is about. "Can't get Windows XP to validate." https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/...nuinewindowsxp If the page doesn't work with IE6, sometimes you can install IE8, carry out your transaction, then uninstall IE8 and fall back to IE6 if you want. The idea being, that the failure could be because the ActiveX plugin isn't able to load in IE6 for some reason. http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...XP-x86-ENU.exe For other language choices for IE8, try the URL list here. https://github.com/Explorer09/Ex-pit...rect-links.txt The last time I reinstalled WinXP here (years ago), some page that was part of activation wouldn't work, and I ended up temporarily installing IE8, just to finish activation. Then I removed it, as normally there's no reason here to be using Internet Explorer. Only kooky stuff requiring ActiveX needs a trip back to IE. Even the validation for hotfix downloads stopped working years ago, well before the end of WinXP. At one time you could generate a code using some EXE and paste it into a web page, to be able to get a Hotfix download. Paul I think I had to be on IE8 when I did it. If the OP never upgraded, he might be in trouble. I am not sure if you can get 8 from a 3d party site. I know I had trouble with some other XP things because "old version" just linked me to a dead MS link. |
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In message , NoonMoon
writes: The MS validate keeps popping up on my Win XP pro laptop. I have a valid key. When I click on the link it takes me to MS Validate but I do not get a web page in Firefox (latest for Win XP), it is blank. How do I resolve this ? Is this a newly or recently built (or modified) system, or one that has been fine for some time and has just started doing this? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf You can be tough without being rude - Nick Clegg, 2014 July |
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In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
writes In message , NoonMoon writes: The MS validate keeps popping up on my Win XP pro laptop. I have a valid key. When I click on the link it takes me to MS Validate but I do not get a web page in Firefox (latest for Win XP), it is blank. How do I resolve this ? Is this a newly or recently built (or modified) system, or one that has been fine for some time and has just started doing this? Quite. The OP doesn't say if this is happening with an existing installation, or if it's a new installation (which is more likely). It's over a year since I last did a new XP installation. [I like to do one every so often 'just to keep my hand in', and every time I do one, the procedure seems to be slightly different, and gets more difficult.] However, if I remember correctly, for a long time IE6 has not allowed you to access the validation server - and IE8 is essential. To get IE8, I believe you need to have installed all the service packs. [I think it comes with SP3, or if not, when you install SP3, it goes to the internet and downloads IE8 as an update.] There are other things you might need to do later to get the other updates - like install Update Agent - but IIRC, you can't really get the updates until you get XP validated. Instead of ploughing through the normal Microsoft XP installation and SP disks, it might be worth trying the 'SP4' route. Unfortunately, at the moment. I've forgotten what you do! -- Ian |
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Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)" writes In message , NoonMoon writes: The MS validate keeps popping up on my Win XP pro laptop. I have a valid key. When I click on the link it takes me to MS Validate but I do not get a web page in Firefox (latest for Win XP), it is blank. How do I resolve this ? Is this a newly or recently built (or modified) system, or one that has been fine for some time and has just started doing this? Quite. The OP doesn't say if this is happening with an existing installation, or if it's a new installation (which is more likely). It's over a year since I last did a new XP installation. [I like to do one every so often 'just to keep my hand in', and every time I do one, the procedure seems to be slightly different, and gets more difficult.] However, if I remember correctly, for a long time IE6 has not allowed you to access the validation server - and IE8 is essential. To get IE8, I believe you need to have installed all the service packs. [I think it comes with SP3, or if not, when you install SP3, it goes to the internet and downloads IE8 as an update.] There are other things you might need to do later to get the other updates - like install Update Agent - but IIRC, you can't really get the updates until you get XP validated. Instead of ploughing through the normal Microsoft XP installation and SP disks, it might be worth trying the 'SP4' route. Unfortunately, at the moment. I've forgotten what you do! You install IE8 separately. I provided a couple URLs above, so you can find a copy. You may not find a warm fuzzy web page welcoming you to a copy, but they didn't kill the URLs where the downloads hide, so you can still have a copy. And someone kindly put a single text page with all the URLs, on a github page. ******* As far as I know, this "validate" crap is part of some KB install option in Windows Update. I had one in my Windows Update on WinXP, which was in the not-recommended state, and the box is unticked for some reason, but nothing prevents you from ticking it and installing it. "Windows Genuine Advantage falsely accuses millions Since July 2005, one in five computers running Windows have failed WGA..." https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/01/8690/ More links here. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/for...ed-both/page-3 "Q: What if a customer does not want the WGA Notification application as part of their Automatic Updates? Can customers remove the WGA Notifications permanently? A: During the opt-in phase, users who have AU turned on will be invited to participate through an opt-in process. Only users who choose to participate will have WGA Notifications installed on their machines. Once installed, WGA Notifications becomes a permanent part of users Windows XP system, and cannot be uninstalled. However, participants will have the option to suppress all the notifications for some length of time. Users will not have the option of uninstalling WGA Notifications. Users who fail validation will be taken to a Web page with a prominent option to license genuine Windows." "Q: What is the difference between WGA Validation Tool and WGA Notifications? A: WGA Validation determines whether the copy of Windows XP installed on a PC is genuine and licensed. WGA Validation was launched worldwide in July 2005. It is required for any download on Windows Update, Microsoft Update and the Download Center. WGA Notifications is software that is distributed through Automatic Updates that reminds users who fail validation that they are not running genuine Windows and directs them to resources to learn more about the "benefits" of using genuine Windows software. WGA Notifications is currently not required to use Automatic Updates." Paul |
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