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Windows XP Home Edition Genuine Advantage Problem

6/1/2012

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Was rebuilding a buddies laptop and ran into a problem with the Windows XP Home Edition Activation.

I did a fresh install of WIndows XP Home Edition, installed each Service Pack and then running the Windows Update.  It asked me to activate the box so I entered in the License Code from the sticker on his laptop.

The window came back as "Activation Successful".  I finished the update of the OS and wanted to install WIndows Essentials to give him at least a little AV security on the machine. 

When I go through the WIndows Essential Installer it barfs and says the version of windows I am running fails the "Genuine Advantage" test.

After much searching on the Internet I came across a post to download the MGA Diag tool (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012).  I download and run the tool, it indicates I have a "Time Synch" issue.  I check the time and sure enough it is 29 days IN THE FUTURE.  I change the Time by hand and then set the clock to sync with time.nist.gov and SUCCESS!!

I rerun the Microsoft Essentials tool and it WORKS!!

Cheers

Bartlett
2 Comments
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8/7/2012 10:20:00 pm

All the contents you mentioned in post is too good and can be very useful. I will keep it in mind, thanks for sharing the information keep updating, looking forward for more posts. Thanks

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9/6/2012 06:48:53 am

thank you for the info. i had the same problem with my windows

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