Friday, September 12, 2008
Third choice
Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications:
1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then:
2. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and search for wgalogon folder and delete it. You should backup up the registry beforeshand, in case somethiong goes wrong.
3. In your windows directory search for files wga* and delete them. when you search for wga* please don\'t delete wgapi.dll if you found. This dynamic link is not related with that notifications massage.
You are done!
Now reboot back normally and continue your work. Windows Genuine Advantage will not bother you anymore.
Note: Now it is not required anymore. You can do it yourself by carefully following the guide above.
Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications:
1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then:
2. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and search for wgalogon folder and delete it. You should backup up the registry beforeshand, in case somethiong goes wrong.
3. In your windows directory search for files wga* and delete them. when you search for wga* please don\'t delete wgapi.dll if you found. This dynamic link is not related with that notifications massage.
You are done!
Now reboot back normally and continue your work. Windows Genuine Advantage will not bother you anymore.
Note: Now it is not required anymore. You can do it yourself by carefully following the guide above.
Second choice
Microsoft has just released an compulsory update to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Validation Tool that makes most of the workarounds, hacks, patches and cracks to bypass and skip the WGA validation check useless.
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool was introduced by Microsoft beginning from second half of 2005, where the tool will check and validate your system’s Windows XP whether it is licensed, certified as authentic, and published and supported by Microsoft, before you can obtain programs from the Microsoft Download Center or receive software updates from Windows Update.
With the new WGA update, it is now impossible to bypass Windows Genuine Advantage validation check by disabling or turning off WGA Validation Tool in Manage Add-Ons in Internet Explorer. The Enable and Disable settings for WGA Validation Tool no longer selectable, with the option greyed out so that you unable to select Disable to deactivate the WGA ActiveX.
Disable been disabled (greyed out) after the latest WGA update.
If your WGA Validation Tool ActiveX control in Internet Explorer’s Add-ons is deactivated or disabled, and you can’t enable the ActiveX control as the current version of WGA controls no longer allows you to change the state of enable or disable, as the radio buttons are greyed out. But if the Validation Tool stays disabled, you might have problem when using Windows Update or Microsoft Update, even after you applied other patches to bypass the
validation process or using when using muBlinder. To reactivate and enable the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool, launch Registry Editor and navigate to following branch:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Ext\CLSID]
Then, change the value date of the key “{17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700}” to 1 (enabled), which its initial value should be 0 (disabled).
However, it’s still possible to bypass the WGA check when using
Windows Update by using the following method of Windows validation crack, at least for now:
- Launch Windows Update website.
- When prompted to choose either Express or Custom in Windows Update, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security and choose Internet.
- Set the Security Level for Internet zone to High by sliding the slider to the top.
- Click OK to continue.
- Now on Windows Update, click on Custom. Ignore any warning about ActiveX control been blocked.
- WGA validation will be bypassed, and you will see a list of updates available to your system or a blank page.
- Now go back to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security and choose Internet, and change back the Security Level to Medium, or simply click Default.
- Click OK to continue.
- If you see a blank page, click on any link under Select by Type or Select by Product that listed on the left pane to show the list of updates available.
- Continue to install updates for your Windows XP.
Set the security level to High.
A almost blank screen that most likely be seen after Windows Update bypass WGA validation and check for available updates with this method.
Update: Disable Genuine Windows Validation with JavaScript
This method to bypass WGA validation check has been around for a while, and it is still workable even after the latest around of update to Windows Genuine Advantage Tool (version 1.5).
Note: As with above method, both methods only workable to get pass the validation check on Windows Update, and not when you try to download from Microsoft Download Center.
When you arrive Windows Update screen when it asks you to choose Express or Custom, copy and paste the following JavaScript to the Address Bar of your browser.
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’)
Or, if you want some sort of notification that the WGA check has been disabled, you can use the following JavaScript. Again, copy and paste it to the Address Bar.
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’);void(alert(’WGA Check disabled.\n\nContinue…’))
With the above JavaScript, there will be a prompt to notify you “WGA Check disabled”. To make thing easier, you can bookmark or add to favorites the JavaScript so that next time when needed, you just only need to click on the bookmark or favorite.
Visit here for WGA fix that enables you to download software including Windows Defender, Windows Media Player and DirectX from Microsoft Download Center.
First choice
There are two possible solutions here. One is caused by a permissions problem in the registry. To fix this issue, follow the steps below:
1. Click Start, and then click Run
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK
3. Expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
4. Locate the subkey HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\LegitCheckControl.LegitCheck
5. Right-click the subkey and select Permissions….
6. Ensure that Administrators allowed Full Control permission
7. Repeat steps 3-6 for the subkey
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\LegitCheckControl.LegitCheck.1
If this does not fix the issue with KB905474 update not installing, download the update to your desktop and manually install it.
1. Click on the link below to download the KB905474 update manually
2. On the File Download Window, click Save and choose to save the file to your desktop.
3. After the file downloads, go to your Windows desktop and double-click on the file named
windowsxp-kb905474-enu-x86_4bafa8793e8cdcaf4ba4ffc494df32d496154544.exe
4. Follow the instructions on the screen to install it
5. Reboot your computer and go to Windows Update to check if the update as installed successfully.
Another reason why the validation may fail occurs when the ActiveX control for the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool has been disabled. Follow the steps below to make sure the ActiveX is enabled.
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click on Tools, Internet Options
3. Click on the Programs tab
4. Click on the Manage Add-ons button
5. Find the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool and click on it
6. Verify the Add-on is enabled, if it is not. Click Enable and Ok twice to exit back to Internet Explorer.
7. Close Internet Explorer and reopen it. Now try to validate Windows again.
A third error deals with Cryptographic Errors. If you are receiving the following information when running the WGA diagnostic tool, the problem is generally with corruption in the digital signatures of some files and they will have to be reregistered.
Diagnostic Report (1.5.0545.0):
-----------------------------------------
WGA Data-->
Validation Status: Cryptographic Errors Detected
Follow the steps below to resolve these cryptographic errors.
1) Click on Start, click on Run
2) In the Open box, type CMD and then click OK.
3) At the command prompt type the following command and Press Enter
regsvr32 softpub.dll
4) You should receive a message that DllRegisterServer in Softpub.dll succeeded, click OK
5) Repeat Steps 3 and 4 to re-register the following files
- wintrust.dll
- initpki.dll
- dssenh.dll
- rsaenh.dll
- gpkcsp.dll
- sccbase.dll
- slbcsp.dll
- mssip32.dll
- cryptdlg.dll
6) After all the above files have been re-registered, type Exit at the command prompt to close it and return to Windows.
7) Restart Windows and try to authenticate Windows again.
A fourth error message you may receive when trying to validate Windows XP is
"Product Key Inaccessible" and "0x80080212" error
This error message occurs when you do not have appropriate permissions for the DATA folder for Windows Genuine Advantage. Follow the steps below to fix this issue or click on the link above for the Microsoft article concerning this problem.
Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home
1. Click Start, click Run, type the following in the Run dialog box, and then click OK:
%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage.
2. Right-click the Data folder, and then click Properties.
3. On the Security tab, click Users (username\Users) in the Group or user names section. If the Security tab is absent, you'll need to follow these steps as well.
- Open My Computer
- Click on Tools
- Click on Folder Options
- Click on the View tab
- Uncheck the option for "Use Simple File Sharing"
- Click Ok and go back to Step 2 above and try again.
4. In the Permissions for Users section, make sure that each check box in the Allow column is selected for the following permissions:
• Read & Execute
• List Folder Contents
• Read
5. Click OK, and then restart the validation check process.
If the previous steps fail, start the computer in Safe Mode and try the procedure again.
If you experience other error messages or problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage, please email me so I can add these to the list.
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