{"id":235,"date":"2006-06-27T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/?p=235"},"modified":"2020-08-22T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:08:28","slug":"sounds-like-wga-is-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2006\/06\/27\/sounds-like-wga-is-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds like WGA is getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe this is actually true:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=84\">http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=84<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attitude expressed by the MSFT representative, however, I can totally believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got the first WGA update through the Windows Update process &#8211; I manually review all the suggested updates but like most people I had no clue what WGA was doing. I have not accepted the later update to WGA, and I have actually removed these files from my SYSTEM32 directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">wgalogon.dll<br>\nwgatray.exe<br>\nwgatray.exe-0ED38BED.pf\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, they haven&#8217;t come back but that probably doesn&#8217;t mean anything. I can still reboot, browse the internet, and get email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, when I launch Windows Update (the application) from the Start menu or IE&#8217;s Tools menu, I am instructed that I must first install WGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, if I configure Windows Update (the system tray icon) to warn me when updates are ready, it appears that from there, I can select to install updates &#8211; and they apparently install successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So as they say, &#8220;Go figure&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe this is actually true:&nbsp;http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=84 The attitude expressed by the MSFT representative, however, I can totally believe. I got the first WGA update through the Windows Update process &#8211; I manually review all the suggested updates but like most people I had no clue what WGA was doing. I have not accepted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-commentary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}