Thursday, March 10, 2011

WD Live Wire Windows Shares fail on application of SP 1

The fact that network shares seem to have been seen to be failing after SP1 was installed could be explained by the version of Windows loosing its Activation status and becoming "Non Genuine".

I had a pc on which the Windows Update was broken, not from the fact that it has been removed by a program such as RemoveWAT but it just failed due some corruption of the Windows System files.
UPDATE: This was fixed - I think that the system date and time were way off - I can join a Homegroup Share on all my computers now.

The consequence is that it no longer received updates and as the process never completed it halted in an error. One of the outcomes of this is that the computer was not able to join a HomeGroup, due to the fact that the HomeGroup time cannot be synchronized with the other computers in the group.

My theory is that those that are reporting that their Windows shares are failing after they applied kb976932 could be due to the fact that these cases were related to "pirated" copies of Windows 7. This subject is still on on-going topic on the WD Live Wire forum.

WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit CPL - WDBABY0000NBK-NESN

1 comment:

San Carlos said...

Was wondering if there was a problem with WD Livewire still