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Remove WGA

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:03:45 +0000

Remove WGA is a small tool that will check if the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Tool is installed on a computer system which is a tool created by Microsoft to check if a Windows operating system is genuine. What many users do not understand is that the check if an operating system is genuine is executed at every system boot. One would think that a sporadic check or one initial check would be enough. Apparently not as the tool checks the operating system at every boot and connects to a Microsoft server to exchange data.

It should also be noted that the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Tool is different from the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation tool. The former is only used to exchange data with a Microsoft server while the latter will perform the validation itself.

Remove WGA will only remove the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Tool if the tool is running on the computer system and only if the user selects so.

The Remove WGA software program scans the computer system and report its findings back to the user. It will tell the user if the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Tool is active on the computer system. To be precise it will check if wgalogon.dll is loaded into the winlogon.exe process.

Remove WGA will provide the means to remove the Microsoft WGA Notification Tool from the system which will essentially remove wgatray.exe and wgalogon.dll. A click on yes will remove the wga notification tool.

The tool is only available for download on various download portals.

RemoveWga 1.2 removes the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications tool

Martin Brinkmann — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:36:34 +0000

RemoveWga has been released in a new version today and I thought it would be a nice idea to post a quick article and download link about this nice anti wga tool. RemoveWga enables you to remove the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications which sends data to Microsoft regulary. The question is why would the wga notifications tool do this if Microsoft once verified that you are running a legit copy of windows ? There is no possible reason that I can think of, enter RemoveWGA.
The following items have been changed in the new RemoveWGA 1.2 utility:

- Now uses the “RunOnce” registry entry instead of “Run” (starts sooner)
- Added a clean removal procedure for the final WGA notification update
(The final WGA notification is now removed cleanly without any BSOD)
- If every removal procedure fails (possibly for futur WGA versions), offers the brutal removal procedure

RemoveWGA only disables the notification part of Windows Genuine Advantage, it does not touch the validation part. No downloads need the notification part as of now, they only check the validation part.

Please read “Preventing the prompt to reinstall WGA notification update” if you want to prevent that windows urges you to update the nofitication part of wga again.

Remove WGA

Martin Brinkmann — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:16:16 +0000

Windows Genuine Advantage Notification is checking if you are running a legit copy of windows on every boot, even though it might have already verified this on the first run. This is an annoying behaviour of WGA Notificiation which can be countered by running this sweet little freeware called Remove WGA.

Remove WGA gives you information if WGA Notification is running on your system and allows you to disable the wga tool from your system. It is also able to run silently on your system and become active when the WGA Notificiation becomes active on your system as well.