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| 777770 | 2009-05-29 00:28:00 | Its happened again. I have the dreaded note on the screen about my windows XP not being genuine. It may be so. I moved house years ago and lost umpteen disks etc - including the original. When my laptop went down completely I had the serial nos etc and Microsoft kindly sent me a new disk when I quoted them. And charged me $50 (I think reasonable). But this desktop computer has been modified umpteen times by two firms - one under new ownership the other closed down. Somewhere although I paid for XP I no longer have it. The computer is too old to spend any more money on it (so am I). I have tried system restore to no avail and cannot find file Kb905474 to delete it. What do I do to make sure I get rid of the note and make sure it doesn't crop up again. I know I was helped ages ago on this problem but memory is grotty now so I need new input. |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 777771 | 2009-05-29 01:03:00 | There is an article in this weeks "Windows Secrets" how to stop WGA by using autoruns.exe from Microsoft. windowssecrets.com Download from here: technet.microsoft.com Best of all is to completely remove, ie. uninstall WGA and Validation. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 777772 | 2009-05-29 01:16:00 | You cant uninstall it, you have to remove the startup entries, the scheduled entries (if it adds them) then rename/delete the files it installed. Easiest way not to get it , is dont leave automatic updates on auto But there is a tool that'll remove WGA |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 777773 | 2009-05-29 01:28:00 | You cant uninstall it, you have to remove the startup entries, the scheduled entries (if it adds them) then rename/delete the files it installed. Easiest way not to get it , is dont leave automatic updates on auto But there is a tool that'll remove WGA Remove...uninstall...same thing....question of semantics, agreedthat MS did not supply an uninstaller as such. When MS first introduced it they said it could not be uninstalled....it took all of 10 minutes to find the files installed and remove them together with any other entries. Never seen it since :clap |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 777774 | 2009-05-29 01:30:00 | Well no theyre not the same one takes longer than the other, and the tool is a 1-2 sec job. Which is faster than both | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 777775 | 2009-05-30 04:45:00 | Success. The automatic update was turned on - dunno how that happened. Anyway I turned it off. Had a bit of a problem finding it because the instructions in HELP & SUPPORT tried to lead me through folders etc that don't exist - well not on my computer anyway. I still had to get rid of the irritating notice and delayed boot up so I downloaded the MS file suggested and ran it, again it took me some time to find the file and the program itself found it for me when I used the search command. It wasn't under "scheduled tasks" but when I did find it I just unticked it and everythign is now fine. Loved the way a MS file got rid of an objectionable MS file for me. Thanks chaps and MS. |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
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