How To Disable Windows Genuine Advantage Warning

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Thursday, July 13, 2006

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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Discussion

KMD
April 29, 2010: 1:46 pm

I can’t find WGA folder. regeditor can’t find it. Plus, i’ve downloaded the removal tool but it don’t work. dey said dat ders no wgalogon!!!


A J
March 8, 2010: 4:33 pm

I have a problem that probably has quite a simple solution though I have no clue what it may be. :) When I go to delete the WgaTray.exe file from C:/WINDOWS/system32 it tells me this:

“Cannot delete WgaTray: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.”
I believe it all starts with not being able to kill the process from TaskManager. Thus, the process and file are currently in use. Now, I have tried the unlocker program also. NO luck. Help!!


komal
September 25, 2009: 11:50 am

how i should unistall genuine microsoft software form my pc. it always display you may be a victum of software counterfeiting

September 24, 2009: 6:34 am

i want to remove geniune window validation

September 12, 2009: 8:33 pm

i restarted my PC. after stopping the WGSTRY process directly
then i searched all the WGA files and deleted them all.. actually it was very usuful reading your post.. thank you so much


superrwoman
May 30, 2009: 4:19 pm

thanks a lot! although i haven’t really tracked the folders cause it isn’t the exact when i try finding the whole thing out, the guide really helped! thank you =]

January 27, 2009: 11:51 pm

AWSOME GUYS!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

YOU THE BEST!!!!!

December 23, 2008: 2:06 am

it seems good and it works….


Hans\\\'arnold
May 8, 2008: 12:13 am

Thank you for the good answers


Sara
October 18, 2007: 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-


tonight
April 27, 2007: 4:25 am

i dont like windows genuine advantage


rashid
April 26, 2007: 4:13 pm

remove genuinemicrosoft software

April 11, 2007: 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


Bill Davis
September 16, 2006: 4:25 pm

I just hope the program works as stated.

July 31, 2006: 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)….

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