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.
- Open Windows Explorer by clicking Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Windows Explorer.
- Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data folder.
- Delete (or backup or move to another folder, if you want) data.dat file.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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May 1st, 2006 18:35
Just use ZoneAlarm to ‘Kill’ WGA in the allowed programs section! Works for me!
May 1st, 2006 01:37
A simpler and easier way to do it is to use muBlinder, you wont need to delete and mess with fake DLLs or do anything else. Whenever you run it you will be able to bypass the update validation. Its only a 40kb file and doesnt even need to be installed. Can be found here http://www.p2plife.com/forums/Official_muBlinder_Page-t320.html
April 27th, 2006 19:43
M$ have released a nice automatic update that shows reminders
every where about WGA, and how you are a victim of counterfeit
software, blah, blah, blah.
To disable it run regedit goto:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WgaLogon
Right click on Settings (Key/Folder) ->
Permissions ->
Advanced ->
Untick Inherit from… ->
Remove any permissions left in the box above ->
Add ->
Everyone ->
Tick Deny Full Control ->
Ok ->
Ok
You have just stopped anyone from accessing the data that tells
the WGA notification programs whether your copy is genuine or not.
This only disables the WGA Nags, it isnt a bypass for the indows genuine advantage check.
April 27th, 2006 07:59
I downloaded this nagging nuisance. System restore got rid of it. From now on I will be careful with updates
dman
April 27th, 2006 07:16
Works nicely thankyou
April 27th, 2006 04:07
Reghack isn’t helping. And in order to remove I had to also put zero value in NoModify, NoRemove, NoRepair and TSAware. Reboor to check. No go. It reinstalls itself after reboot. Have new dll and get files from M$ fine. Don’t have the star in toolbar, just the startup shutdown nags. Will keep searching for fix.
April 23rd, 2006 04:01
wingboy, there doesn’t seem to be new patch on WGA so the hack of data.dat still works perfectly.
April 22nd, 2006 12:54
a new patch of WGA makes this patch fails.
April 14th, 2006 01:00
Wow, the guys at microsoft must be vast asleep. Simple trick…
April 12th, 2006 05:45
Or better yet, don’t use Windows, lol.
April 11th, 2006 07:43
the data.dat way works like charm
April 11th, 2006 06:00
The .dll works like a charm. The other solution didn’t work. Thanks people!
April 5th, 2006 14:15
During installation Windows Defender checks the license again (!) and refuses to install…
Is the workaround exists?
April 2nd, 2006 22:01
Nice job
works perfectly!
April 2nd, 2006 20:39
Ok people, this works perfectly fine. (Thanks! My old method no longer works as of sometime last month.)
Add these steps…
First, close everything.
Second, follow above steps
Third, restart computer
Fourth, happy updating!
If you are running IE at the time you do this, it still knows what the old data.dat looked like, so will fail you. On a friends system where he has changed many settings, it was neccissary to restart his computer for the change to take effect.
And remember, hidden and READ ONLY! Otherwise it will just update it when you run IE.
March 24th, 2006 10:08
“Try to download LegitCheckControl.dll from http://rapidshare.de/files/14475249/LegitCheckControl.dll.html
“Replace the LegitCheckControl.dll inside C:\Windows\system32\ folder.”
This worked a dream for me. It won’t overwrite the original if you’re in the middle of a GW Validation, so close that window and redownload. Once it overwrites properly, go back and download whatever you want! I suggest you save it, though…
March 22nd, 2006 04:47
doesn’t work either.
Does anyone have a proper hack or crack for the
validation check.
Myself
March 19th, 2006 12:57
Disable ActiveX at the Registry
Another way that I found via a forum:
Download freeware ActiveXHelper.
Uncompress and run axhelper.exe.
Select ‘Load ActiveX list from the following CLSID/ProdID list:’.
Then paste LegitCheckControl.LegitCheck.1 and click OK .
Right-click on the registry key and select ‘ Disable selected item’.
Close all Internet Explorer Windows and restart IE.
March 19th, 2006 12:49
Try to download LegitCheckControl.dll from http://rapidshare.de/files/14475249/LegitCheckControl.dll.html
Replace the LegitCheckControl.dll inside C:\Windows\system32\ folder.
March 19th, 2006 06:25
Followed the instructions. New file. Empty. Hidden and read only. Used IE. Does not work. Pressing continue when you get to the spot that it asks for validation takes you to a page to download the active x control to vaildate (which you can not because the control is disabled) .. the only other option is the alternate validation which of course does not work either.
March 18th, 2006 19:55
yuyu, again, this tricks is working at my PC. Try to use IE instead of Firefox or other browsers. And remember to change the attributes of data.dat to Hidden and Read-Only.
March 18th, 2006 19:39
it’s not working
March 15th, 2006 13:27
On another note, if you see this, how did you (or whoever) figure this out?
March 15th, 2006 07:00
Hey, thanks for the tip =)!
March 8th, 2006 20:27
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