WGA Removal

What really works?

There have been many suggestions, methods, how to’s and more of how to disable this latest Microsoft anti piracy software, and hasn’t it just caused such a stir. Here on wannabegeek we have carried a removal link and this has generated more hits and page views than we would have expected as this is just a brand new site. So many thanks to Microsoft for generating our site traffic.

There is another site mydigitallife which carries at least a hundred and one ways to disable this most unpleasant update from M$ as it is affectionately known.

This has prompted us to try these and see which ones really work, which ones allow the installation of Microsoft’s new products such as Windows Defender, Media Player 11,and the latest version of windows live and IE7

We downloaded a pirate copy of XP Pro SP2 which by the way is surprisingly!, easy to do, complete installation and more software than you could want, almost an automatic install with minimal input required, not even a product key, so you don’t really know if your running a blacklisted key or not.

It took quite awhile to download and install all the updates from Microsoft and eventually get the annoying wga screen

Firstly we tried the main method shown on this site

Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\windows\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

  Step By Step

This seemed to work no problem, no more nag screen. simple enough all you have to do is to remember not to install the wee monkey next time you get updates.

But this leaves us nowhere really all that has happened is no annoying screen, but what about installing software from M$, you have to go through validation checks and it finds your illegal product key, It tells you that if you want to purchase a legitimate key it will cost you £100 or so. Well that’s not much good if your into running pirate software, sort of defeats the purpose but I guess M$ would like us all to sheep and follow them.

So we have done a little of bit of research and little more testing and we came up with a solution for this week, it may not work next week or even tomorrow but it has worked here for a bit so good luck.

Step 1

RemoveWGA

WGAFixer

• Download these little utilities , they remove or fix the wga files , run them both to make sure it wont hurt any, if you still have problems you 'Google' for a newer version of WGAFixer but this one worked fine for us.

Step 2

• Go to this directory on your computer "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data" where 'C:\' is your root installation drive if not alter accordingly. Don’t forget to check the "Show hidden files and folders" tab by going to explorer, Tools, Folder Options, View tab.

• Open the file data.dat by right clicking open with choose notepad, select all and delete contents, SAVE (don’t forget.) close and right click for properties check "read only" box THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Close

Step 3

legitcheck

• This little utility allows you to check the legitimacy of your OS without using the M$ activeX control via IE, just double click it will validate your installation and offer you a link to the Microsoft downloads Page where all the wonders are available, We always kept open the legitcheck window whilst at the Download page, this may or may not be important.

And that was that!, no more WGA and full access to all new programs and updates, SIMPLE REALLY (Not), it has taken lots of time and research to find all this stuff out and I would wish to thank all those out there that have contributed to the work around which ever method you have used or designed,. Keep up the good work

wannabegeek

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written by a guest, August 11, 2008

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written by vasili, March 19, 2008

Verry good. I worked great with me without any problem at all in xpsp2. Good deal.

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written by Jolyn, August 06, 2007

My been life's pretty recently. boring ,

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written by name, August 02, 2007

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written by name, July 14, 2007

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written by trawets, March 24, 2007

As you can see this article is a little old and probably out of date
can you explain what happening with your installation, may be we can find another route

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written by wannabegeek visitor, March 24, 2007

YEAH THEY CHANGED IT ON THIS COPY THAT i HAVE THEY WONT LET ME DO THE STEPS ABOVE, IT WON'T VALIDATE AFTER I DID THOSE STEPS FEEDBACK ON THIS ISSUE PLEASE; TRAVIS_J5546@SBCGLOBAL.NET

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