Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
On 19/04/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan, my laptop dual-boots with XP. I have that set up to notify me of
updates, but not install. I do recall seeing, however, that you can elect
to
download updates automatically and install later, though I've never tried
that, since I like to read the description of the updates before letting
them
loose :-)
Anne
That is almost impossible in Israel. Software pirates are rampage
here, such that WGA assumes everything is pirate. I do believe that
it's area-specific, and with just reason. In any case, on my current
Dell I run a cracked XP in a VMWare VM because my legal XP disk won't
validate and the cracked one works fine! I've overcome the moral
reasons as I HAVE a legal licence.
Automatic updates are the only way to update a cracked XP. As for my
(past) professor, I will suggest to him non-automatic updates.
Untrue. Firstly, don't use a cracked XP, you're losing out on
functionality and updates, you're only getting security critical updates.
Secondly, if you have a valid copy of windows and it's not validating,
sort it out! It's easy enough to do.
Thirdly, if you want, you can turn off the entire of windows update and
BITS services, disabling automatic updates and just remember to go here:
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/
in Firefox (not even any need for IE) to update windows
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