Cyber Oppression

I figured that I would post this in case I ever have trouble finding it in the future. Microsoft has a “feature” of its windows update process that verifies the product key that was used to install the product; in some corporate environments where a number of systems were cloned using the same key this can cause problems.

To get around this, when on the windows update website, before hitting “Custom” or “Express”, just cut-and-paste the following javascript command into the Address bar:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

Viola, no more Genuine Advantage.