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| Windows Genuine Advantage |
| Friday, May 4, 2007 |
This is Microsoft’s new weapon against counterfeit software. It installs itself as though it is a normal Windows update but starts flashing up messages if it finds that your copy of Windows XP is a “Pirate”.
Of course, it also advises you how to purchase a legitimate copy of Windows - this is good business for Microsoft in this slack period before the launch of Windows Vista.
Some commentators are spitting feathers about this - the “update” cannot be uninstalled and it checks that your Windows is genuine every 24 hours. They say that it qualifies as Spyware in every possible way. Lawsuits are apparently being prepared.
Anyway, Microsoft have backpedalled on this one, and after a lot of unofficial uninstall instructions were published on the Internet they have now published their own OFFICIAL unistall instructions. Read them here.
http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/921914
To see some of the comments on this, go to these articles on the Windows Secrets web site:
http://www.windowssecrets.com/comp/060615/ and http://www.windowssecrets.com/comp/060629/
My tips for implementing the procedure are as follows:
Follow the instructions and check your spelling fastidiously before entering each command.
The first 4 steps in "Manually remove" are identical to the "Disable" section, so you don't have to do them twice.
Don't bother with step 2 - the procedure also works for later versions of WGA (so far), so there's no point in wasting time finding out which version you have got.
%Windir% usually means c:\Windows for most PC's, but %Windir% will pick up the minority of installations that are not on the C: drive or not in the Windows folder.
Sometimes there can be several copies of WgaLogon.dll and WgaTray.exe - there may be WgaLogon(2).dll etc. You need to rename them all in step 3 and delete them all in step 8.
After step 8 search the windows\system32\ folder for any remaining files starting with "wga" to make sure that you have deleted all the copies. If any remain just delete them with Shift Delete
If you are removing WGA because you have what MS thinks is a pirate version of Windows then you are likely to get WGA notifications again when MS decide to release a new version. So switch off Automatic Updates in the Security Center in Control Panel. (Or change it to just notify and then be very careful about which updates you select to install - MS aren't likely to tell you which is really just a new version of WGA are they?)
If the nags from the Security Center about Automatic Updates are going to annoy you, then whilst in the Security Centre click "Change the way Security Center alerts me" and untick "Automatic Updates".Labels: PC Tips N Tricks and Tweaks |
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