Disable and Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Nag Screen

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The “Windows Genuine Advantage Notification” (KB905474) cannot be uninstalled by Add/Remove Program in Control Panel by default, contrary to the claim in the knowledge base article. To enable the removal of KB905474 WGA Notification tool, follow the below steps:

Note: It seems like it’s not possible to uninstall WGA Notifications from Add/Remove Program. Cobolhacker has details on why KB905474 cannot be uninstalled. Suggested steps to “uninstall” are search and delete all WgaTray.exe and WgaLogon.dll files in your boot drive (if you using search, check the “Search system folders”, “Search hidden files and folders” and “Search subfolders” checkboxes), delete all the register keys in the following tree: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WgaLogon, and to remove the entry from Add/Remove Programs list, delete the registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WgaNotify. With uninstallation, WGA Notifications will try to install again next time.

  1. Click on Start.
  2. Click on Run.
  3. Type in regedit in the Run text box.
  4. Click OK or press Enter.
  5. In Registry Editor, browse the the following registry key branch:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
    Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WgaNotify

  6. On the right panel, modify the value of NoRemove (by right clicking on the key and choose Modify) to 0.
  7. Exit the Registry Editor.
  8. Re-launch the Add/Remove Program, and Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications (KB905474) is now removable.

Prevention is always better than cure. So the best to avoid the the KB905474 Windows Genuine Advantage Notification application to be automatically downloaded and applied by Automatic Updates is to disable Automatic Updates. Go to Automatic Updates in Control Panel and disable it by selecting Turn off Automatic Updates, or if you still want to receive the critical patches from Microsoft, select Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them or Notify me but don’t automatically download or install them. Remember to uncheck (deselect) Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474) when prompted to install any updates.

If you have already install the WGA update, you can use the hacked/cracked version of LegitCheckControl.dll (newer version suggestion by tyler) to remove the annoying nagging message. (For old version) But Windows Update will still ask you to install it since it’s a newer version which is 1.5.526, unless there is newer version of cracked LegitCheckControl.dll available. You may however try to “up” the version of hacked LegitCheckControl.dll yourself by using the following method:

  1. Get the patched/hacked “LegitCheckControl.dll” from the internet (e.g from link above or any file sharing service)
  2. Install Resource Hacker if you still don’t.
  3. Open both (original in Windows/System32 and hacked version) “LegitCheckControl.dll” files with Resource Hacker.
    Go to “Version Info”, replace the version info of the patched File with the version information from new original LegitCheckControl.dll.

    1 VERSIONINFO
    FILEVERSION 1,5,526,0
    PRODUCTVERSION 1,5,526,0
    FILEOS 0×4
    FILETYPE 0×1
    {
    BLOCK “StringFileInfo”
    {
    BLOCK “040904B0″
    {
    VALUE “CompanyName”, “Microsoft Corp.”
    VALUE “FileDescription”, “Windows Genuine Advantage Validation”
    VALUE “InternalName”, “LegitCheckControl”
    VALUE “LegalCopyright”, “Copyright © 1995-2004 Microsoft Corp.”
    VALUE “LegalTrademarks”, “Microsoft® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.”
    VALUE “OriginalFilename”, “LegitCheckControl.dll”
    VALUE “ProductName”, “Microsoft® CoReXT”
    VALUE “FileVersion”, “1.5.0526.0?
    VALUE “ProductVersion”, “1.5.0526.0″
    VALUE “PrivateBuild”, “Built by gacald on WGA-FILE-SVR.”
    }
    }

    BLOCK “VarFileInfo”
    {
    VALUE “Translation”, 0×0409 0×04B0
    }
    }

  4. Save File.
  5. Put the modified version of hacked LegitCheckControl.dll in Windows/System32 folder, replacing the original from Microsoft.

Beside, WGA Notifications tool is also reported to be able to be bypassed by emptying (deleting the contents of) the data.dat in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data as detailed here.

If you disable Automatic Updates, you can always download any updates from Windows Update or Microsoft Update using the hacks and tips from here and here. If you are prompted to mandatory must install KB905474, the above tricks should disable the checking of existence of KB905474 notification application. Again, remember to deselect the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474) which will listed in High Priority section and selected for you by default.

Note: Visit the a more tidy article on how to bypass and disable the WGA with various tricks and hacks or a host redirect method to make Windows genuine permanently.

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833 Responses to “Disable and Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Nag Screen”

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  1. dario
    June 20th, 2008 21:38
    833

    che
    no me funciona el tema de DESINSTALAR WGA NOTIFY
    increiblemente todavía sigue……..

  2. freki
    June 20th, 2008 00:35
    832

    thanks! this really helped to remove annoying “reminder”.

  3. panda
    June 3rd, 2008 19:07
    831

    Download Software for remove WGA for Windows Xp Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ezdjdg52s3t

    its so easy,great help!tnx a lot

  4. Kushal
    May 18th, 2008 21:56
    830

    Hi whn i did these “RUN in the star bar.
    %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a”
    it shows that the product is activated but when i validate the WMP11 and IE7 its shows the product is not original… what should i do now…. pls help

  5. Crab
    May 10th, 2008 20:16
    829

    When i install windows media player 11, it still says that my windows is not geniue but the nagging is gone.. please help…?

  6. Pascal
    May 1st, 2008 11:46
    828

    Easier way to do it.
    Write this on RUN in the star bar.
    %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
    If the window says not Activated.
    You do this..
    Go to run… write regedit and open the folders in this order..
    -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    -SOFTWARE
    -Microsoft
    -WindowsNT
    -CurrentVersion
    -WP AEvents
    -OBBtimer –> When you get to this.. you open it.. and erase the number on the right. Close and do what says on top..
    THMPV-77D6F-94376-8HGKG-VRDRQ
    Thanks a lot Man my Windows XP is now Genuine

  7. mushfique
    April 29th, 2008 01:38
    827

    hey
    cool…the last method really works…thanks a lot…the crap is gone…

  8. pk
    April 26th, 2008 03:39
    826

    thanks

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