Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Fix for Windows Genuine Advantage

Tried the following steps and it worked. Just for experimental purposes...

original source: http://exempt.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/how-to-disabling-windows-genuine-advantage-wgatrayexe/

1. Restart your computer, hit F8 before windows loading screen to go into the safe mode menu.
2. Select Safe mode (not with networking, and not with command prompt)
3. Once your in windows, goto START>RUN> type "regedit" (without the qoutation marks) and hit ENTER.
4. Goto EDIT, select FIND
5. Search for wgatray.exe, delete any reference found, (after it finds it the initial first time, just hit F3 to continue the search. Continue to delete anything it stops on.
6. Scroll all the way back up inthe registry editor, and select My Computer (one click. not two) and start a new FIND, this time were looking for Wgalogon, again, delete any references found.
7. Lastly, again, click on My computer, and start a new FIND, searching for LegitCheckControl.dll , again delete any references found.
8. Reboot and your finished, if not, you may have missed a registry entry.
BTW you should be able to continue to download Windows update (when set to automatically download an install).
This is for informative purposes only.

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