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I didn't post a crack or anything like that. You're still missing my point and will probably never get it with your logic. I have a valid LEGIT version of XP. I downloaded the tool because it forced me to in order to move onto other downloads. The tool, I'm quite sure, did its job since I was still able to use windows and didn't get any messages that I had an illegal copy. BUT, after it validated me, there should be a way to turn the friggin thing off....to get it out of my system tray. But there wasn't! SO I was FORCED to find a way to delete the thing in order to get my smooth fps back. LOOK, I just forked out $800 in the last 3 weeks on upgrading to a widescreen flat panel, an ati x800xt platinum video card, and an X-fi soundcard! Do you really think I'm going to let that incompetent validation tool come in the way of the games I was enjoying before I downloaded it? From one gamer to another, think about it man.

Oh I get it now. Because you and some of your friends didn't experience any problems with it, then you're implying those of us (like me) who did MUST be using an illegal copy and its doing its job??? This is the original XP that came with this Dell when I got it. If you want to call me a liar, then thats your problem. The thing didn't mess with my system OTHER than stay in the system tray and it brought down the fps on my new games. Now that it's gone, all is well again. Do you play first person shooter games? Do your friends? Even if you do and you still respond that nothing happened, consider the many different variables from each person's computer and software setup.

Well, obviously, this wga tool is sooooo top priority that a mod here removed some helpful replies to my post here as well as a solution that I found to it. Get over yourselves, like gates himself is trolling this forum to look for tiny inklings of info that "might" be encroaching.....whatever dude....like I said, get over yourself. I mod some forums too pal and I would NEVER consider a valid helpful solution to an obvious MS problem something that shouldn't be allowed Heres the PM I got "Zaxiom" or some name like that: I have a legit version of XP and shared a solution to an aggravating matter that I'm sure MS won't be suing this website over for it being posted.....you take your mod job way too seriously, get over yourself and go watch some comedy or something.

It didn't happened to me. There were a mandatory download : "WGA Tool", needed to proceed to download pages. But the "WGA Notifications Tool" you're talking about was optional (thus my question...) : only presented in "windows update"... Suppose you're living in USA, and you have a driver license since two years (a legit driver license). Suppose you want to buy a car. You get two solutions : 1) go to a shop, choose the car you want, show your license to the seller, get the car you wanted, and voilà 2) go to the police station, ask the policeman if your license is legit making him suspicious, go to the shop, choose the car you want, show your license to the seller, get the car you wanted, use it, but the policeman will remember you, and since "normal people" (read: those who are not paranoiac) doesn't go to the police station asking if their legit driver license is legit, he will randomly arrest you, check you tires, and let you go. I'm not saying you're paranoiac, but you choosen the second solution. I see two ways to "go back on the first" : ask the policeman how many bucks he want to stop bugging you (dangerous) ; or wait until he find a more enjoying hobby. BUT IN NO WAY YOU NEED TO HOWL IN THIS FORUM ! Dude you're smoking some good wack or something.....whatever, thx On another note, a BIG THANKS to those of you trying to help me. Thats why I posted this here, very frustrated at the time, but nevertheless to share something maybe others were experiencing too and to toss some solutions around. I'll try some of what I just read....Thanks guys

Well, you remember how that one page comes up saying you need to download blah, blah, blah before you can move on?? Other downloads they force on you before you can download anything else (such as security patches)....ya get where I'm coming from? Thats what happened. Trust me if I didn't need it, I would have opted out. And by the way, I think the previous validation tool they put out a while back should have been sufficient enough. Thats why I said MS needs to get over themselves....so theres a few other copies of windows that might not have been caught by that first tool...its not like they're standing in the welfare line! I GET THEIR POINT! BUT MAKE IT WHERE LEGIT COPIES CAN UNINSTALL THE FRIGGIN TOOL IF IT DOESN'T MIX WELL WITH A USER'S COMPUTER. THATS ALL I ASK!

This is Microsoft's picture on their new crap validation tool web page.....she does not represent someone upset with this crap validation tool!!

I just installed this thing, everything is legit, and the latest games I've been playing, SIN Episodes and FEAR are getting crappy fps. SIN went down from 65 to 22. I can't get the stupid icon in the tray to disappear either. Normally I turn off things from the tray when I game to save system resources and maybe since I can't turn this thing off, thats why my games are playing crappy. I've tried the options it has and restarted but it keeps reappearing. Anyone know how to uninstall this thing? It won't let me do it in the control panel. There should be a class action lawsuit threat to microsoft for putting this thing on and not allowing us to remove it once our software validates that it is a genuine copy. Its crapping my games out and I want it gone! I HAVE A LEGIT VERSION OF XP, GEEZE MICROSOFT, GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!!! Friggin retards! At least allow those of us with legit copies an option to uninstall it if it causes problems we didn't have before!!!! Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. --Sonic