WGA is a pain in the butt for many of us. Even if we have a legal copy of windows it just makes us do things we don’t want to. So here is a solution for all you WGA haters out there :
1. Download Orca (remember to disable your pop-up blocker when on that page) and install it.
2. Open WindowsDefender.msi with Orca
3. Go to the “CustomAction” table on the left
4. Right-click on the “CHECK_WGA” action and select “Drop Row”
5. Now got to “Dialog” table on the left
6. Look for the dialog “CheckWGA”, change the Attribute from 2 to 0
7. File > Save (DO NOT use Save As…)
8. Close Orca and run the installer.
That’s it! Worked for you? Do drop us a line.
Update:
A person named Alex on another blog has found a solution to the recent patch up Microsoft made to disable this, well its back again and works like a charm!
The new Windows Defender is out, the way to bypass the WGA check (at least the one I found) is to open the MSI with Orca. Click Control Event on the left and go to CheckWGA. Make sure that the Argument column of the first and second CheckWGA Dialogs is ?LicenseAgreement? and you can install and use Windows Defender without problems.
Kudos to ken for the update.
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Completed the steps smoothly but its still asking me to validate before installing media player, how come?
Thanks a lot man, it was cool.
Are MS becoming more aggressive
Similar software is simply refusing to work.
Having installed XP SP3 on a test machine I have noticed that the many copies of mskey.exe I have downloaded are not working. The dialog says I do not have the appropriate permissions
If this represents a new MS attitude of covertly blocking unapproved software we should all be worried. It is only a small step from blocking mskey from running to blocking TOR. I’ll be testing these (blocked?) progs on SP2 later. If they work i’ll be very concerned.
Hi,
I have been doing this for a long time and it worked so far:
I instaled XP after disc format and the only thing i must pay attention to is every time i install any windows updates i do it manually (never automatically) and just never download or install WGA tool.
I think it’s the best way to stay away from WGA.
I know that for most people it could be painfull to format a disk but believe me, it’s the best way.
Okay…I have tried ALL of these tricks except the ORCA one (all I need is DirectX and possibly to be able to update MediaPlayer). NONE of them have worked. And I don’t know if the ORCA one is what I’m looking for.
DAMN! S***! DAMN! I just grabed a copy of Win XP MCE 2002 from a buddy but it turns out it was just a pirated copy DX, I really hope this works or Im F’ed!!!!
Lame. The orca installer requires flash to download. Using firefox 3.0 or IE v6 with the latest flash and shockwave and it wont work. L2 use a good download service.
No buttons mean: No files accessible!
hey guys is this thing ligit, if so does it bypass vista sp1
I have found windefender and install and did proceedure. But Still I cannot install winmplayer.exe.
This is so very very annoying.
I really do not feel like downloading Orca and hacking into the msi files.
where do i find the windowsdefender.msi???
i cant dowloaded because it says i need to have the validation from microsoft first for my windows software!!!!so what????
finally i did the whole thing…but still it says my version is not valid and i have a VLK key,what should i do???? do i have to install windows defender?
i was having xp sp-2. i used the way of added the registry for validation and i was able to update from microsoft site and can install wmp 11 and all. but yesterday i updated my service pack 2 to sp3 and after restart ..Windows Product Activation- A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking license for this computer. Error code- 0×80004005 is there at the time wondows is loading and it says that wiondows is logging off. i m unable to login. what can i do?? i m able to login in safe mode. but hav no idea what to do? plzz help..
Thx guys for helping out in removing this WGA shit. The update by Alex as posted by ken is very unclear to me compared to the first posted hack. The ken post suggests to look for 2 License agreement consecutively in the Argument column with Check WGA in the Dialog column after clicking Control Event. There is only 1 License Agreement I get in the Argument Column with Check WGA in the Dialog box and a License Agreement is there just above that line in the Dialog column. What is it that I need to do to with the ken update is very unclear? Do I drop both those rows and then follow the first update or what? If anyone can clear this up for me I would be extremely grateful as all of u know how irritating that WGA is. Please help me out and let me know how to get rid of the WGA with the updates provided.
Thru Alex’s posting windows defender got installed but while updating it gives the error code 0×80004002 and WMP 11 still does not get installed. Can any1 help with these 2 issues?
Lauch Windows Task Manager.
End wgatray.exe process in Task Manager.
Restart Windows XP in Safe Mode.
Delete WgaTray.exe from c:WindowsSystem32.
Delete WgaTray.exe from c:WindowsSystem32dllcache.
Lauch RegEdit.
Browse to the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft
Windows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonNotify
Delete the folder ‘WgaLogon’ and all its contents
Reboot Windows XP.
Right at the start of this hack it tells u to remove WgaTray.exe from the processes tree in Task Manager. The moment u try to remove it it gets replaced immediately with another WgaTray.exe file and the more u remove more stars come up on system trays and once u place the mouse over them they disappear but 1 is always there. On trying to complete the rest of the hack Wgatraqy.exe in the system32 folder does not get deleted even in safe mode but gets deleted from the dllcache folder. The star at the tray no longer exists and the WgaTray.exe process is also not there in the processes tab of TM. But still the validation does not work as I am unable to install wmp 11 or the other files which requires validation of the windows OS. Please can someone come up with a hack by which the validation is no longer required and stuffs like wmp 11 and winamp can be installed. TIA to any1 who reads it and tries to give me a solution.
OMG!! This Does Work… Rock on!!!!
Take it to the MAX!!! use it
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hey gays, anybody having solution for installing ms security essential without wga. pls share with me.
Thanks in Adv.