How to manually disable Windows Genuine Advantage
on Windows XP SP2
I have a pirate version of Windows XP Pro 2 installer CD which does
automatically turn on
Windows Genuine Advantage
This is kind of annoying as the computer gets really slow and the
hard disk drive activite gets intensive as well as an annoying
popup message that the Windows XP copy is not genuine does appear
periodically
In order to get rid of the message I had to do the following
steps:
1. Get into Windows Safe Mode without Networking
As most of the people knows this is achieved by pressing
F8
keyboard key right before the Windows bootup screen appears.
After in Safe mode it's necessery to,
2. Run Windows Command Line (cmd.exe)
To do so follow, the menus:
Windows (Start Menu) -> Run ->
cmd.exe
3. In the command prompt window issue the commands:
C:\Documents and Settings\User> cd \Windows\System32
C:\...\User\Windows\System32> taskkill -IM wgatray.exe
C:\...\Users\Windows\System32> del wgatray.exe
C:\...\Users\Windows\System32> move wgalogon.dll
wgalogon.dll.old
C:\...\Users\Windows\System32> del
wgalogon.dll.old
A Windows system restart and Hooray the Windows Genuine message is
gone :)