Resolve of You may be a victim of software counterfeiting Windows is not genuine

Microsoft has released WGA(Windows Genuine Advantage) Notifications application which generate the warning message "This copy of Windows is not genuine". This Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications application check your Microsoft Windows XP validity and then if it found that the copy of Windows XP is not validated, not genuine, counterfeit, unlicensed, pirated, illegal, unauthorized or simply failed the Windows Genuine Advantage validation process, then the notification messages will appear at various places and time.

While logn to your machine it comes a pop up window indicating you to 'Resolve now' or 'Get Genuine' and wait for 5 seconds.

After logon to your system you get "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting' message on the bottom right corner of log-in screen.

Along with randomly appeared as balloon notification message with an icon in the notification area (system tray) you got other changes like you background became black.

In this post I will provide several solutions so that we may get rid of WGA notifications.

Method 01:
1.Open task manager window, You can do it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or right click on taskbar and then select Task Manager.

2.On the Task Manager pop up window under processes tab find wgatray.exe process and then right click and select End process tree option and then select yes.

3.Restart Windows XP in Safe Mode.

4.Delete WgaTray.exe file from c:\Windows\System32.

5.Delete WgaTray.exe file from c:\Windows\System32\dllcache.

6.Click on Start menu and write regedit.

7.Browse to the location,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
and then delete the folder 'WgaLogon' and all its contents

8.Restart Windows XP.

Method 02:
This one is very easy method and works perfectly.
1.Rename the file 'WgaLogon.dll' and 'WgaTray.exe' in C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder.

2.Open Task Manager and then kill WgaTray.exe process.

3.Reboot your computer.

Method 03:
If you have turned on system restore feature then do a system Restore to restore the PC to a previous restore point or to a previous time where the WGA Notifications hasn’t kicked in. To use System Restore, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore.

Method 04:

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