the final word: is windows update messed up or not?


  

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  1. 1. the final word: is windows update messed up or not?

    • Yes, its messed up, change your key
      11
    • No, it's fine, get the update and enjoy
      17


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Originally posted by MxxCon

no. works perfectly fine for me.

WINDOWS UPDATE DOES NOT AND CAN NOT KNOW YOUR CDKEY.

read their privacy statement. if it wasn't true all provacy mongers wound jump on MS's throat.

and you need to make a poll for this?:ermm:

i made it a poll so that the question would actually be answered, for the question that was asked, instead of

"i have no idea what youre talking about, but shiny things are pretty"

"well in MY version, which is completely different from what youre talking about, it works fine, and makes a green and orange swirling effect while its at it"

hey, i got a new install up and thought the update was messed up, but when i disabled my proxy, it was all good. make sure you aren't using a popup blocker using proxy or anything like that. or at least exclude the microsoft.com domain from going through the proxy.

  • 3 weeks later...

here is what i was told:

windows update works fine now, and will until sp1 is RTM. at that time, when you go to windows update your PID is collected (READ the new Privacy thing at ms) and then that info collected is compared to make sure you don't have the "blacklisted" key. READ THIS :

The following information can be found as Windows Update, and then click on About Windows Update in the left side bar, and then scroll down to Windows Update Privacy Statement.

Windows Update Privacy Statement

Windows Update is committed to protecting your privacy. To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. This information includes:

Operating-system version number and Product Identification number

Internet Explorer version number

Version numbers of other software

Plug and Play ID numbers of hardware devices

The Product Identification number is collected to confirm that you are running a validly licensed copy of Windows. A validly licensed copy of Windows ensures that you will receive on-going updates from Windows Update. Windows Update does not collect your name, address, e-mail address, or any other form of personally identifiable information. The configuration information collected is used only for the period of time that you are visiting the site, and is not saved.

To provide you with the best possible service, Windows Update also tracks and records how many unique machines visit its site and whether the download and installation of specific updates succeeded or failed. In order to do this, Windows generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that is stored on your computer to uniquely identify it. Windows Update records the GUID of the computer that attempted the download, the ID of the item that you attempted to download and install, and information about your operating system version and Internet Explorer version.

Because Windows Update does not collect personally identifiable information, the configuration information and GUID cannot be used to identify you.

SO MXXCON i guess the PRIVACY MONGERS better get a move on!

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