[geeks] Windows XP, and activation

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 @ 16:45 -0500, Bryan Fullerton said:

> On 11/6/06, velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/5/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> > > Sat, 04 Nov 2006 @ 14:33 -0500, Nadine said:
> > > > However, if you turn on automatic updates (including the variants,
> > > > just inform, download but don't install, etc), it works fine.
> > >
> > > ...this doesn't do anything at all.  It never downloads anything.
> >
> > Odd.  I have not had a problem with it.
> 
> I believe you need to have relatively current levels of various
> Windows components (Windows Update client, Microsoft Installer,

I know, that's one reason I used a slipstream install that was current
as of September 2006.

Everything is there, it just hasn't gotten anything yet.

One problem I just realized: the stupid Windows clock.  I forgot that
Windows time was broken and didn't honor timezones. 

I picked another option that just backgrounds downloads and asks later,
so maybe that won't care what time it is.


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