Automatic updates turned on?

Yes, it's a real shame that you are using pirated software. This is illegal. However, the updates from Microsoft do require you to have a genuine installation of windows xp and the updates just won't work. You may also find yourself being linked back to Microsoft and I guess they could eventually trace you. This is bad stuff! Get yourself a genuine copy of Windows xp. Good luck. Andrew

Well yes he is right. This may lead to some serious problems. And plus if your computer gets updated with a pirated version, then the Windows Guinuine advantage thing shows up on the screen and it buggs the hell out of user. You dont want that to happen

In my pc automatic updates is not turn on.I am using a pirated version of Xp.If we turned on automatic updates,after completing the updates a not genuine banner will appear,while we try to log in to the computer.So it is better to turned off automatic updates,if we are using a pirated version of windows operating system.

ya your friend is right. when it updates automatically the pirated key will be found and will be blacklisted then an error message will be there always in the desktop as it is pirated one and not a genuine. The desktop wallpaper will become black.

nope! for me i manually update it all! bcuz somtiems i dont want sometihng n it installs and also someteims i jsut want to surf the internet adn it keeps updatein! happy lottin n have a nice day!

On my computer I turned off the automatic updates and even system restore also turned off. Its not recommended to turn off the automatic updates if you have a pirated windows. Any way you still can update your windows manually if you want but don't apply the wga update or you will screwed up your windows.

Yeah!! he is right to some extend.But using a pirated Xp will cause more problems than this. Better you install a good one.I used to turn off the automatic updates because once my Xp SP2 automatically updated to SP 3 and that resulted in hanging up of my whole system.So,I usually turn the automatic updates off or set as "ask me before downloading the updates".