RemoveWGA 1.2

Publisher's Description:

RemoveWGA enables you to remove the Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool, which is calling home and connect to Microsoft servers every time you boot. Once the WGA Notification tool has checked your OS and has confirmed you had a legit copy, there is no decent point or reason to check it again and again every boot.

Also, Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications is different than Windows Genuine Advantage Validation. RemoveWGA only removes the notification part, phoning home, and does not touch the Validation part. As the time I'm writting this, the Validation part is mandatory for some not critical downloads from Microsoft, but the Notification part is not mandatory at all, and you are able to install all of the security updates without installing this one. This may change in the future thought, I don't know what are the Microsoft plans.

Latest Changes:

• Now uses the "RunOnce" registry entry instead of "Run" (starts sooner)
• Added a clean removal procedure for the final WGA notification update
• If every removal procedure fails (possibly for futur WGA versions), offers the brutal removal procedure

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	trynow	Sep 30, 2008
Version:	1.2
this notification should be active in your OS. Think Why? I dont want to see any user inactiveted when having talk or chat with msn. Why do we need this removeWGA does it keep us in secure or not.I have no idea do you have all. Thanks. But you may add this too. WGA viewer when removed or disabled and enabled.
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Reviewer:	Aegis69	Aug 28, 2008
Version:	1.2
Why is my antivirus reporting this as a trojan?
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Reviewer:	DigitalDJ	Aug 1, 2006
Version:	1.2
bobad, that is pure stupidity and ignorance. Some updates, say for IE, will prevent exploits to the browser which can occur when a user opens a webpage. A firewall isn't going to prevent this, an antivirus may (depending on how recent the exploit it is and how good the AV is) and antispyware software is certainly not going to fix it. Update your Windows, its not just for the fixes but for updates like .NET Framework 2.0.
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Reviewer:	bobad	Jul 31, 2006
Version:	1.2
Excellent program. Although it isn't that hard to "manually" delete the WGA-related files and registry keys, this little proggie handily automates it. MS really screwed the pooch this time. Not only by slipping in the trojan-like WGA, but even making it difficult to disable Windows Update. They have squandered a lot of good will they had with millions of fence-sitting customers. Windows Update should never be used anyway. If all your hardware and software work, and you use an AV, Firewall, and Anti-Spyware, you don't need Windows Update. KEEP IT TURNED OFF! Only update for the major service packs. Believe me, you don't need the rest if everything is working.
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Reviewer:	robmanic44	Jul 31, 2006
Version:	1.2
What's the point? It's not as if you're going to going to make your system invisible to Microsoft and you're sure not going to gain system resources.
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