It looks like CMG was blocking some part of Vista validation mechanism which obviously failed completelly and ■■■■■■■ my current license. Please check this part as its quiet crucial!
Or is it possible there was just a very bad coincidence (Microsoft enforcing more strict checking).
Vista is genuine otherwise.
This may be of no importance, but yes microsoft has updated their WGA validation, many of my friends (Who have not so genuine software on thier PCs) are expiencing major grumbles from WGA.
My suggestion is to download this
Download and run the utility at this link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012 , then click the Windows tab, Copy to Clipboard, then paste the report into a response message in this thread.
It’s just not compatible with Vista. If i install CMG and leave it running over night i’ll get that error message for sure. If i remove it, no error message about my license.
Latest version just did it again. Why the hell no one else reports this problem, just me!?
And this isn’t just a random display. Vista worked fine for ages and now some hours after i installed CMF, invalid license again… I’ll never use CMF again…
You have to add WGA process to exclusion list. The process name is \windows\system32\wgatray.exe (don’t have vista here, but you can google for it’s name). This is not a bug or something, this is just WGA’s protection against hacks.
wgatray.exe is just a symptom (and it doesn’t even show this thing). I just get an error, similar to the one encountered with Sasser or MSBlast saying there was a file! mismatch (modified) and that license cannot be authenticated. Far from just wgatray.exe…
Good thing i made System Restore… I’m not touching CMF again…
On My Windows Vista Business 32 Bit, I have 3 .exe’s, 1 .vbs, and 9 .dll’s (12 files total that I can find in the C:\Windows\System32 folder dealing with software licensing). I do not know if this information will help you any or not.
Stuff like this shouldn’t happen with final versions, especially since i’ve been warning about it since beta releases. And for program stating it’s Vista compatible. Oh dear!