Deployment of the latest version of WGA Notifications for Windows XP has began, this release includes a couple of significant updates.
Based on user feedback, a return to the Windows Update install prompt as the simplest, fastest way to install and stay up-to-date.
The Team will be focusing on the product edition that is most often stolen, aka pirated, Windows XP Pro.
This release will be offered to Windows XP Pro as well as those using editions based on Pro code such as Tablet and Windows Media Center. The plan is to narrow the offering to Pro in future releases.
With this update to WGA Notifications in Windows XP, we’ve implemented a couple of related features that draw on the notifications experience we designed for Windows Vista SP1. After installing this version of WGA Notifications on a copy of Windows XP that fails the validation, most users will discover on their next logon that their desktop has changed to a plain black background from whatever was there previously
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Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional
