Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check

Update: The patch no longer working. For complete listing of more ways to bypass the new WGA update, check it out here.

As detailed in Bypass Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Check in Windows Update, Microsoft has made it harder for illegitimate, or for whatever reason, your copy of Microsoft Windows couldn’t be validated, users to retrieve updates via Microsoft Updates or Windows Update, and download programs from Microsoft Download Center.

If you just want to download and apply critical updates to your system, you will be still able to do that without any hack and crack. Just set your Windows’ Automatic Updates (found in Control Panel) setting to Automatic, and let Windows does the updating job in the background. The downside is, it won’t get for you the optional updates.

If you want to download optional components from Windows Update, or simply want to download Windows Defender, Windows Media Player 10, Photo Story 3, DirectX 9 and other application softwares from Microsoft Download Center that require WGA validation tool, you will need to apply a easy and safe hack to bypass the checking.

  1. Open Windows Explorer by clicking Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Windows Explorer.
  2. Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data folder.
  3. Delete (or backup or move to another folder, if you want) data.dat file.
  4. Create a new empty data.dat: You can create a new text file by (make sure you are at the right folder at above) clicking File -> New -> Text Document or right clicking on Windows Explorer window then click New -> Text Document. Then, either rename the file to data.dat. The original .txt extention of the text file need to be changed too. You can disable the hiding of extension of known file types, or follow the following steps to create a new file out of the text file:
    • Open the text document you just created.
    • Click on File -> Save As.
    • Change the Save as type to “All Files”.
    • In the File name, type data.dat
    • Click Save.
    • Go back to the Windows Explorer, at folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data, check that data.dat exists.
    • Delete the text file you created previously.
  5. Set the attributes of data.dat to Hidden and Read-Only. Attributes can be set by right click on the data.dat file, and then click on Properties.
  6. Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation check has been disabled.

Note: The data.dat that are replacing the original data.dat can be blank text file or empty, or you may type whatever you want there.

With this hack (or crack if you want), Windows WGA piracy check will be bypassed and you can now download software from Download Center or apply updates from Microsoft/Windows Updates.

Note: The hack no longer able to remove Microsoft Genuine Advantage that pop-up “This copy of Windows is not genuine” warning message by telling you that WGA encounters error when trying to perform validation. More details and ways to bypass WGA available here.

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99 Responses to “Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check”

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  1. gogotshi
    February 27th, 2008 05:30
    99

    well if you want to have windowsdefender and skip wga:
    easiest way to do it..
    just download any version of windows defender and save it on c: then click on start—”Run” and type this without the cuotes
    “c:/WindowsDefender.msi -qr”
    (qr extension is for quiet mode no user interaction ) that will bypass wga validation and will go directly to install enjoy..
    thanks welcome

  2. lil 0ne=)
    December 23rd, 2007 04:53
    98

    idont like how the genuine thing alwas pops up i just want to get rid of it(N)
    it shows up when i log on and it alwways pops up when im busy doing work and grrrrrr…
    i hate it(N)
    JEEEEZZZ

  3. admin
    June 20th, 2007 18:06
    97

    Shaun, please do not post everywhere and multi-post, else your comment will continue to be deleted as it’s treated as spam.

  4. Shaun
    June 20th, 2007 18:02
    96

    What’s up with the admin,
    I’m providing the link to the patch and they just delete the link…. People are asking for the file and I’m providing it then why are you deleting my message…..

    Here’s the crack,
    http://rapidshare.com/files/37955048/GenuineWindowsPatcher.rar

    ONLY ONE THING IN THE KEYGEN SELECT windows xp VLK and then select THE GENERATED KEYS….

  5. RCAF
    June 9th, 2007 05:34
    95

    Eestlane Thanks alot for that d/l .. worked like a charm.. cant thank you enough

  6. eestlane
    May 24th, 2007 00:59
    94

    These tricks only patch Windows and also they aren`t 100% truthful. You have to fix basic problem: your CD-key is banned or not valid. To fix this problem you have to change CD-key. Thatway I have posted 4 tools to make your Windows GENUINE. It works 100% (OK , maybe not 100% because microsoft may has changed his security system, I don`t know if he has done that) Anyway I was able to make my Windows XP VALID. ) So if you decide to try this solution , download windows.rar from this site: http://rapidshare.com/files/32959804/windows.rar

  7. Goku
    May 15th, 2007 22:44
    93

    Winows XP Genuine Patcher! Just Click “Patch”!
    http://rapidshare.com/files/31450066/Windows_XP_Genuine_Patcher.rar
    Antivirs detects it as a virus, cause it illegal…

    Cya!

  8. Shaq
    May 15th, 2007 22:26
    92

    Hi, I’ve found this WGA Patcher, it disables Validation Check! http://rapidshare.com/files/31445825/WGA_Patcher.rar

  9. wildcats1369
    May 14th, 2007 17:52
    91

    the keyfinder have a virus found using NOD32

  10. admin
    May 7th, 2007 22:43
    90

    Application Data is hidden, but this hack no longer works.

  11. Rasmus
    May 7th, 2007 22:21
    89

    Hello i did follow your guide until i came to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users, And there was not no folder named Application Data. If anyone know why, and what else to do then please help me!

  12. ALex
    April 29th, 2007 09:37
    88

    This is old news, I like that crack they posted but I doubt it will work for long,

    Vista is better then XP

    BTW, want free software? cracks and more go here:

    http://forums.mydigitallife.info/index.php

    Get Anti virus, discuss windows and more!

  13. yed
    April 12th, 2007 07:06
    87

    thank you so much shovan!

  14. JAy
    April 10th, 2007 20:22
    86

    thanx shovan ur the best. the cd key really did work. thanx again

    Shovan
    February 11th, 2007 02:07 80Hi
    use these steps
    1. Download keyfinder.exe from info-ed.com
    2. Change the cd key to
    JG28K-H9Q7X-BH6W4-3PDCQ-6XBFJ
    Congrats!!! now your version of Windows XP is Genuine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  15. Eddie
    April 3rd, 2007 23:24
    85

    Will I be able to get SP2 with this? Will I still have to avoid the validation process? will I be able to get all the updates now? I will try this later on ,if this works I just want to say …Bless you my friend!!

  16. kristi
    April 2nd, 2007 00:14
    84

    thank you very much!!!!

  17. rawchard
    March 21st, 2007 11:08
    83

    whoa what an easily working crack shovan haha, compared to everyone else’s… props…

  18. Abed
    March 20th, 2007 02:27
    82

    thx a lot shovan your way worked good looking out

  19. manny
    March 18th, 2007 10:39
    81

    big ups to Shovan. his crack worked!!!

  20. Shovan
    February 11th, 2007 02:07
    80

    Hi
    use these steps
    1. Download keyfinder.exe from info-ed.com
    2. Change the cd key to
    JG28K-H9Q7X-BH6W4-3PDCQ-6XBFJ
    Congrats!!! now your version of Windows XP is Genuine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    :D

  21. prasad
    January 8th, 2007 15:22
    79

    hi

    im a studet

  22. Disable and Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Nag Screen « Spiritual Reflections
    November 29th, 2006 11:08
    78

    [...] Another alternative suggested by dman 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. [...]

  23. RLawrence
    November 22nd, 2006 11:19
    77

    I desparately need Photo Story 3 to complete a project. Cannot download due to the “alternate method for validation” required on the page. What did they do now? Wish they’d just leave me in peace to fight their quirky software.

  24. Corey
    October 29th, 2006 01:11
    76

    i tried the “skip validation process” above and it says that windows was unable to tell if your version is genuine or not. then it gives me intructions telling me what to do.

    Follow these steps to resolve the issue and
    complete the validation process

    1.Click Start, and then click Run.

    2.In the Open field, type %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\ and then press ENTER.

    3.Delete the Windows Genuine Advantage folder.

    4.Run the validation process again.

    if i follow those steps im afraid it will say my version is not valid and annoy me with that. so what should i do?

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