Monday, January 16, 2006

Another Reason Windows Occasionally Sucks

After recovering from a crashed display driver at my work PC... I am told to run windows update, (I already was current with updates!!!). Before being able to install anything else (which I can't think of anything I would need... I get this:

Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool (KB892130)
443 KB , less than 1 minute
The Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool enables you to verify that your copy of Microsoft Windows is genuine. The tool validates your Windows installation by checking Windows Product Identification and Product Activation status. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed.

Now my copy is legit, so I don't care, but this is annoying nonetheless.

3 comments:

tokyocrunch said...

"This software requires that you restart your computer to complete the installation. Would you like to restart your computer now or continue working?

[ Restart Now ] [ Restart Later ]"


*click "Restart Later", continue working for another five minutes until ...*

"This software requires that you restart your computer to complete the installation. Would you like to restart your computer now or continue working?

[ Restart Now ] [ Restart Later ]"


*click "Restart Later", continue working for another five minutes until ...*

"This software requires that you restart your computer to complete the installation. Would you like to restart your computer now or continue working?

[ Restart Now ] [ Restart Later ]"


*click "Restart Later", continue working for another five minutes until ...*

"This software requires that you restart your computer to complete the installation. Would you like to restart your computer now or continue working?

[ Restart Now ] [ Restart Later ]"


*click "Restart Later", continue working for another five minutes until ...*

"This software requires that you restart your computer to complete the installation. Would you like to restart your computer now or continue working?

[ Restart Now ] [ Restart Later ]"


*click "Restart Later", continue working for another five minutes until ...*

"This software requires that you restart your computer to complete the installation. Would you like to restart your computer now or continue working?

[ Restart Now ] [ Restart Later ]"


*handful of pills*

Felone said...

I can say, I've been there before... It was even more impressive when it was during a presentation in a conference room.

Anonymous said...

Yes, I've been there and done that too. For some time now I have been making plans to switch sides, partly because Macs are more geared for what I do on computers...and in part because of my general frustration level with OS, software and software/hardware conflicts on my PC. I will, however, keep a barebones box around just so that I can check my blogs on that crap browser to see if I need to add any hacks to my CSS.