How Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Nag Screen

Microsoft has released WGA Notifications application which effectively turned Microsoft Windows operating system into a ‘nagware’, with a “This copy of Windows is not genuine” warning. What the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications application does what it will check your Microsoft Windows XP validity. If it found that the copy of Windows XP is not validated, not genuine, counterfeit, unlicensed, pirated, illegal, unauthorised or simply failed the Windows Genuine Advantage validation process, then the notification messages will appear at various places and time. When you log on to a non-genuine copy of Windows XP,
the following notification error message
“This copy of Windows is not genuine” will pop-up on the logon process

Solution 1

    Lauch Windows Task Manager.
    End wgatray.exe process in Task Manager.
    Restart Windows XP in Safe Mode.
    Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32.
    Delete WgaTray.exe from c:\Windows\System32\dllcache.
    Lauch RegEdit.
    Browse to the following location:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
    Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
    Delete the folder ‘WgaLogon’ and all its contents
    Reboot Windows XP.

Solution 2

    1-Launch Task manager
    2-End process WGAtray.exe
    3-Quickly restart in safe mode.
    4-Click start, then Run. Type regedit and click ok.
    5-Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    6-Click Software, microsoft, windowsNT, currentversion, winlogon, notify.
    7-On the right hand side find folder WGAlogon and delete it and all of its components.
    8-Restart in normal mode.
    9-Go to c:\windows\system32 and delete WGAtray.exe file.
    10-Next to it should be WGAlogon.dll, delete this too.
    11-Delete from recycling bin and reboot.

This should have solved the problem but i advise switching your automatic updates to
“Notify me but dont automatically download or install them”. This should advise you if your computer tries to download WGA again.

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