and to clarify, a "vanilla" Xp install with current updates gives you this odd thing called "WGA Verification"
Windows Genuine Advantage is a POS app that acts alot like Windows Defender, but stripped down and with no updater or scanner. it DOES however apparently circumvent some web traffic. choosing a different mirror sometimes helps. and most worst of all, YOU CANT UNINSTALL IT! so that may be what has happened. another thing you may want to try is disabling the Windows Firewall (if its SP2) - this is hell for setup.exe On 4/18/07, Aaron W. LaFramboise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave Korn wrote: > Are you running any of these? No. It's a fairly vanilla XP Home installation, with current updates, and not too much else installed. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
-- Morgan gangwere "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/