WGA Authentication/Validation Error

[Anonymous]

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[Micky007]

Hi,

Yea my mate had the same problem, but it should be fixed now.

Thanks

[Hosser]

Yeah I had this too; just kept pounding away at the WGA validator until I got Aero back.

A displeasing couple of hours.

[Anonymous]

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[jeaffro]

Doesn't seem to affect XP mate, mine works fine.

[Micky007]

[quote:962accc0ab=\"jeaffro\"]Doesn't seem to affect XP mate, mine works fine.[/quote:962accc0ab]

Yea it was only for Vista customers. Other OS where not effected.

[alexnifty]

I know I'm replying to a slightly dated thread, but heres what happened:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42034


New software was accidentally loaded onto the live servers running the system, and that caused the servers to decline activation and validation requests that were good. Voles spotted the problem and rolled back the servers within half an hour but the problem continued to affect the validation service.

Doesnt take much for every Vista user to be automatically considered a pirate. :roll:

[Anonymous]

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[Hosser]

I heard it was only retail copies of Vista that were affected, so businesses probably weren't affected. This is probably why the problem was so low-profile, I mean who cares about the retail customers? ;P

[Anonymous]

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[bouncyb]

Large business's use KMS to validate their copies anyway