To Dan;
Well folks its like this, I received another surprise early Saturday morning, when I did another WGA office check. It not only said that my Front Page was VLK, but it also said that my Microsoft Office Visio 2003 was no good. Now when I saw the second one, that is when I knew something was wrong and that there had to be a serious bug in the WGA program.
Why, because I knew I had no CD for the Microsoft Office Visio 2003 and that program was downloaded straight from the Microsoft Web Site!!!!!!!!!!!
So now this says that and from what I understand it is also telling me that the Microsoft download is not genuine. Amazing
I ran a Microsoft tool that is supposed to clean and straighten up the registry folks, and I got 5 different entries that were removed. It said that I had corrupted registries???? Well I turned off long time ago any chance for anyone to even get close to such on my computer. After I did this, then did the reboot, I find it cannot even read the fact I had a CD and a DVD.
So, what I did was do a another complete re-format inside a record time like 14 hours installing all my programs back in including the Front Page, and the Visio, and others and all the updates being downloaded including the OFFICE and guess what no problem occurred. How many files -> I would say about a good 1.5 million files.
I cheated the WGA method, and went reverse in my installation. I knew I had for certain at least one good OFFICE PROGRAM CD because for some reason it kept getting by-passed by the WGA. I will not mention it here cause I believe MS will try to block that one out as well. Anyway the reverse process worked and I got my Front Page and others back as well.
So folks even deleting that dat.data files and other methods did not work. That was not the solution. Even doing the Microsoft clean up program did not work either. It is inside the registry that the WGA looks for and of course I saw it and compared to my previous backed up registry of when the programs worked before. There was some difference. Again the only difference I did here was I not install the Net Framework 2.0, and only had Net Framework 1.1 as of right now and all worked fine. I discovered that there may be a conflict with Net Framework 2.0 with WGA, creating a bug somehow that gives you a FALSE POSITIVE of your software being not Genuine.
Again the reason why I suspect such, is because I did not install Net Framework 2.0 this time around, and the other is when it said that my Microsoft Visio 2003 download was supposed to be non-genuine as well when I did have Net Framework 2.0 installed. Now with the Visio 2003 and Front Page installed with only Net Framework 1.1 ---> Viola all went smooth!!!!!!!
Very weird indeed. So, now I guess I have to make a decision here of whether or not to have my free Chess game which needs Net Framework 2.0 for it to work. Also folks, just as well the Net Framework 2.0 gives conflict to your Microsoft Flight Simulater 2002 and FS 9 Century of Flight and creates problems inside that game as reported by many of us Flight Simmers.
There is something wrong with this Net Framework 2.0. I still cannot see how in the heck that they can insert a 64 bit into a 32 bit and make it backwards compatible. Many of our computers operate on 32 bit version. The Vista for example-> is a 64 bit requiring different hardware and processes as well. What Microsoft is trying to do here is combine both bit versions into one package, and in doing so this is creating a heap of problems to many folks out here. This is why I am convinced that there is indeed a SERIOUS FLAW IN THE NET FRAMEWORK 2.0. programming itself. If Microsoft made a separate version for the 32 bit, and a separate version for the 64 bit in their Net Framework 2.0 version and perhaps the same for the Net Framework 3.0 that they just came out with, then I believe most of the problems will more or less disappear.
You cannot just take a 32 bit and expand it to a 64 bit and vice versa take a 64 bit and squeeze it like a dickens down to a 32 bit and expect to see it work. Mathematically it is impossible. It defies the law of MATH.
For example we have a 32nd of an inch on a ruler by itself, and we have a 64ths of an inch on another ruler as well. Take a look at these two different rulers yourselves and you will then see exactly what I mean above. So it is TWO DIFFERENT MEASUREMENTS all together. Same applies to computers as well.
Some computer geek will try to explain this in such a way to try to make some sense of their knowledge to justifiy its reasoning, but face it folks, the old school ways of learning to do your math in your head is by far 1,000 times better than the new ways of learning to do your math of which so many today NEED A CALCULATOR to do it for them or some computer to do the figuring for them. If you not believe it, ask some kids today just some math questions any place and any time, and you will be surprised that they cannot give you the correct answer.
So my problem is solved, by doing a complete Re-format of the Main C partition of my hard drive and inserting the one known OFFICE program that Microsofts WGA by-passed and then downloading all its Windows updates first and its Office updates first as well before inserting the rest of the other Office programs that I had here AND AVOIDED installing the NET FRAMEWORK 2.0. After this, all is a piece of cake -> no problem.
Have a good day folks
