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Repairing digital signature issues in Windows XP


Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor
11.29.2006
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Microsoft supplies digital signatures for key Windows components to insure that they're genuine, as a way to prevent unauthorized parties from substituting in device drivers or system .DLLs. However, if the subsystem that confirms digital signatures on components is damaged, a slew of difficult-to-diagnose errors may result.

Examples of these errors include:

Undetected problems with digital signing may be the biggest reason why WGA does not work correctly for many people with legitimate copies of Windows; many reports of this happening are coming up on the official Microsoft WGA Validation Problems forum.

Fortunately,


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the solution is relatively simple, and can even be automated.

If the components in question don't register successfully, that might be a sign of other problems, such as a damaged COM+ catalog, which need to be dealt with first.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Power Users Newsletter, which is devoted to hints, tips, tricks, news and goodies for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP users and administrators. He has more than 10 years of Windows experience under his belt, and contributes regularly to SearchWinComputing.com and SearchSQLServer.com.

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