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Saturday, November 28, 2009

How to Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications

When you install windows XP on your computer, you may get Windows genuine advantage notifications pop up on your computer if you haven't passed the validation test. At times its become very frustrating. To stop these notifications, you can either validate Windows or remove the genuine advantage notifications program entirely. If you choose the latter, here's how to do so.

  • Go to My computer and click on tools and then " then "Folder Options," then "View". Click on the check beside "Hide extensions for known file types" to uncheck it.
  • Click on the "Start" button and then the "Run" icon. Type "regedit" without the quotation marks in the "Run" text field and click "OK." Your register editor program will now display. 
  • Navigate to the following registry file: My computer\HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify." You can find that key by first clicking on "My Computer," then "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE," then the "Software" folder, followed by the "Microsoft" folder, which brings you to the folder "Windows NT" then the "Current Version" folder, followed by "WinLogon" and finally the "Notify" folder.
  • Find the "WgaLogon" folder inside the "Notify" folder and right-click on it. Choose the "Delete" option and left-click on it. You have now removed the program files from the registry.
  • open the file C:\Windows\System32. Next, find and delete the file named wgatray.exe
  • Go to the file C:\Windows\dllcache. Again, find and delete the file wgatray.exe.
  • Now restart your Windows and you will never receive this Notification message in future.
Note:- Please follow above mentioned steps only if you know something about computers and Windows operations. 

1 comments:

diggpoints said...

i think, when you installed Windows you must Turn Off Automatic Updates.