Genuine WIndows Update fails

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Ron Boetger

We have a Widows 2000 workstation and the other day the Auto Update
downloaded and installed the Genuine Windows what ever the rest is,
and now it is saying this is not a legal copy! Yes It Is!

Any Ideas how to fix this?

Thanks
 
Hello Ron,

Phone to MS support, they will help you if the copy is legal.

Best regards

Myweb
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Ron said:
We have a Widows 2000 workstation and the other day the Auto Update
downloaded and installed the Genuine Windows what ever the rest is,
and now it is saying this is not a legal copy! Yes It Is!

Any Ideas how to fix this?

Thanks
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IIRC, updating Windows 2000 from the Microsoft/Windows site requires
manual validation. The process is to download and run a file named
genuinecheck.exe, when asked. If the installed version of Windows 2000
is a legitimate one, then there is a clipboard dialog box containing an
8-character code which is then pasted into another box on the screen.
This completes the validation.

Unless I am mistaken, there is no remote validation for Windows 2000
installations. The manual approach has worked every time.
 
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