How To Disable Windows Genuine Advantage Warning
Previously I described how to remove the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool. It is a simple tool to get rid of the home calling of Windows Genuine Advantage notification tool. Obviously it also disables the regular "This copy of Microsoft Windows XP is not genuine" type warnings if it feels your copy of windows is not genuine. There is also a manual way to remove WGA notification tool available from internet -
Update: Please follow this procedure instead:
How To Disable Windows Genuine Advantage Notification in 3 Simple Steps
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Kill the process wgatray.exe in Windows TaskManager (Select it then right click and select End task) and restart Windows XP in safe mode. Now delete the following files:
Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\windowss\system32
Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\windows\system32\dllcache
Start Windows Registry editor and delete the folder "WGALOGON" located in the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinlogonNotify.
Delete all references in your registry to WgaTray.exe (repeat search using F3 function key).
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July 31st, 2006 at 9:17 am
Remove Windows Genuine Advantage (Download Latest Version)
This version removes cleanly both WGA Notification ‘Pilot’ version and ‘Final’ version, it should theoretically not be needed anymore to directly unload the WGA notification in live from memory and to risk a blue screen (BSOD)….
September 16th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I just hope the program works as stated.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:21 am
It does
April 11th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
can you guys make a registry editor so beginears can just double click on it and can get rid of this error easily
April 26th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
remove genuinemicrosoft software
April 27th, 2007 at 4:25 am
i dont like windows genuine advantage
October 18th, 2007 at 12:57 am
I’ve just removed all references of wgatray in my registry following Angusmans directions. Could someone please go though some sort of check list with me so I can be sure that it has worked and that I haven’t actually messed things up? Thanks-
May 8th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Thank you for the good answers