Saturday 9 June 2012

Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications

Is your computer suffering from  "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting" or “This copy of Windows is not genuine” message on the bottom right corner of log-in screen? If yes, your copy of Windows XP is not validated, not genuine, counterfeit, unlicensed, pirated, illegal or unauthorized.

When you log on to a non-genuine copy of Windows XP, the following notification error message “This copy of Windows is not genuine” will pop-up on the logon process:



And a message as below will be displayed on the bottom right corner of the login screen. 




There can be two options that Microsoft allows to their users: 
1.  Get Genuine.
2.  Resolve Later.

Clicking on the resolve later option temporarily lets you login and use Windows with a balloon notification message in system tray.




To get rid of the WGA notifications that intends to remind you that your Windows is not validated, you can buy a validly licensed copy of genuine Microsoft Windows.

To bypass or disable the WGA notification warning messages we can do the following: 


Disable WGA Notifications Warning Message

METHOD 1:

  1. Lauch Windows Task Manager.
  2. End wgatray.exe process in Task Manager.
  3. Restart Windows XP in Safe Mode.
  4. Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32.
  5. Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32\dllcache.
  6. Lauch RegEdit.
  7. Browse to the following location:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
    Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
  8. Delete the folder ‘WgaLogon’ and all its contents
  9. Reboot Windows XP. 

METHOD 2:

Another alternative is by using System Restore to restore the PC to a previous restore point that WGA Notifications hasn’t kicked in, and then carefully stop KB905474 from been applied to the system. To use System Restore, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore.

Try It! And Enjoy! 

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