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January 8, 2010
Windows Genuine Advantage Notification - Installation Wizard
I reinstalled the O/S on my laptop over the Christmas break and now it's nagging me to run the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification - Installation Wizard every time I reboot. It isn't that my version of Windows isn't legitimate. It is. I've never bought a computer without Windows (at least, not since 1991, anyway). My Windows key code is on the bottom of my laptop. You have to put it in to activate windows. So I did. And I activated Windows.
But now, it's nagging me to run this stupid Genuine Advantage crapware and I've had enough. I'm not running it. Send me to prison, I don't care. I'm not doing it.
I searched to try to figure out how to stop it from running, but everything I found was for people that were failng the Genuine Advantage process and getting a nag screen telling them that they were out of compliance. That's not my situation. I've never run the wizard, and I want it to stop nagging me to run it.
Finally, tonight I figured out that WGASetup is a scheduled process:
Start - Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Scheduled Tasks
So, I deleted the scheduled task WGASetup. Now, when I reboot, I think it won't nag me any more.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on January 8, 2010 at 1:25 AM
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this works. i did as instructed and restarted, the message did not appear. thank you very much.
rushdi
Posted by: rushdi on December 25, 2010 at 7:35 PM