Updates

[sharazmohd]

anyone has any idea how often ms updates LegitCheckControl.dll, WGAtray.exe and WGAlogon.dll (genuine valadition tool & notifications)

[Zxian]

Whenever Microsoft figures out how people are patching the previous versions and they can make new ones...

[MagicAndre1981]

why do you want to know this?

are you not genuine?

[LLXX]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921914

Remove it and be done with it.

[Andromeda43]

Sign up for M$'s notification eMail and they will let you know when updates are ready for download.

OR, just set up your PC for AutoUpdates and then don't worry about it any more.

Their update notification letter looks like this:

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They make it pretty easy to keep up with what's going on.

Now as for the WGA thing.....well, the false positives have created more hate and discontent than anything Microshaft has ever done since releasing Windows ME.

I've had two customers so far, that have called me in a panic because WGA is popping up on boot, telling them they have an illegal copy of windows XP. In both cases, XP is legal.

I wrote a little batch file to remove WGA and stop the popups. Then I had to disable the WGA downloads in the Windows Update program.

I placed the WGA Killer batch file on my (rented) download site.

Here's the text of that batch file. Just copy and paste the text into a Wordpad document and save it to your desktop with the name "WGAKill.bat"

Run it once, to get rid of the active WGATray, etc.

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@Echo off

Cls

rd "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Windows Genuine Advantage\" /S /Q

rd "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\" /S /Q

del "%windir%\System32\WgaTray.exe" /S /F

rem The above lines remove Genuine Advantage from the HD.

Echo: Now, reboot your system to finish the job.

pause

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That won't legitimize a bogus version of XP, but it will stop the totally obnoxious popups.

Good Luck,

Andromeda43 B)

Edited August 25, 2006 by Andromeda43

[gunsmokingman]

Here a VBS script that does the same as the batch file above excepts it ask the user if they want to reboot the computer.

Save As RemoveWga_V2.vbs

Dim Act  : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
 Dim Fso  : Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 Dim Wga1 : Wga1 = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%AllUsersProfile%\Windows Genuine Advantage")
 Dim Wga2 : Wga2 = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage")
 Dim Wga3 : Wga3 = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%Systemroot%\System32\WgaTray.exe")
 Dim Cmd1 : Cmd1 = ("shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00")
'/-> Check If Exists Then Delete If They Exists
   If Fso.FolderExists(Wga1) Then Fso.DeleteFolder(Wga1) End If 
   If Fso.FolderExists(Wga2) Then Fso.DeleteFolder(Wga2) End If 
   If Fso.FileExists(Wga3) Then  Fso.DeleteFile(Wga3) End If 
'/-> Ask If You Want To Restart The Computer
 Dim Rpt : Rpt = MsgBox( "To complete the process a reboot of the computer is required." & vbCrLf & _
 "Would you like to Reboot the computer now?", 4 + 48 + 4096, "Finished")
  If Rpt = 6 Then Act.Run(Cmd1),1,True End If

This is the same as the above except it reports what been deleted.

Save As RemoveWga_V1.vbs

Dim Act  : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
 Dim Fso  : Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 Dim Wga1 : Wga1 = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%AllUsersProfile%\Windows Genuine Advantage")
 Dim Wga2 : Wga2 = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage")
 Dim Wga3 : Wga3 = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%Systemroot%\System32\WgaTray.exe")
 Dim Cmd1 : Cmd1 = ("shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00")
 Dim WgaR
'/-> Check If Exists Then Delete If They Exists
  If Fso.FolderExists(Wga1) Then : Fso.DeleteFolder(Wga1) : WgaR = WgaR & vbCrLf & "Deleted " & Wga1 : End If 
  If Fso.FolderExists(Wga2) Then : Fso.DeleteFolder(Wga2) : WgaR = WgaR & vbCrLf & "Deleted " & Wga2 : End If
  If Fso.FileExists(Wga3) Then : Fso.DeleteFile(Wga3) : WgaR = WgaR & vbCrLf & "Deleted " & Wga3 : End If
 Dim Rpt : Rpt = MsgBox(WgaR & Vbcrlf &_
 "To complete the process a reboot of the computer is required." & vbCrLf & _
 "Would you like to Reboot the computer now?", 4 + 48 + 4096, "Finished")
  If Rpt = 6 Then Act.Run(Cmd1),1,True End If

Edited August 25, 2006 by gunsmokingman