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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Open data.dat in notpad delete the text save it.
go to properties select: Hidden and Read-Only click on OK and restart your computer.
Great work helping us out in this way. It worked fine, Thanks for your trouble puting it on the internet.
ROCKXP4.exe works..
thanks a lot..
can i use it in windows xp sp3?
if i use this system restore, i will lose all data aquired from the time i updated this WGA? please answer me fast
Sorry but it didn't work for me.
Instead it says that the validation is incomplete and will not let me continue.
it worked very well for me and so as other users.
as you know if your stuck and broke and have WGA not letting youn in you can try to activate by web and put "C:" in the Explorers window when it pops up. you cant get explorer.exe to run but you have a window that you can find your files. I just found that if you donload MS messenger and when its done downloading, in Firefox Download maneger "open folder" (Firefox download location
esktop) where the start menu flashes, so the Startbar dowes show but the "Restore Destop Picture" fucks me up.
http://download.live.com/?sku=messenger&wa=ws…
Thanx guys,
I really bypassed it
to remove genuine advantage
Mere system ke screen par icon hai nikalne ke liye kya karna hai software ko remove karna hia plz me help
Thanks
for ur article about Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check
this works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
my screen displaces, u may b a victim of software counterfeiting and i dont know what to do
thanks for ur article about Bypass and Disable Genuine Windows Validation Check.
1.install rockxp(free) [http://korben.afidium.com/RockXP4.exe]
2.change xp key to JG28K-H9Q7X-BH6W4-3PDCQ-6XBFJ
3.install ie7 or wmp 11
4.validating ur xp will be successful
Shovan´s method still works today!
Thanx
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!