Yesterday a friend of mine ask if I know how remove his windows 7 WAT so he could explore more with his windows 7 Operating System.  I told him that I have a tool to remove Windows XP Windows Genuine Advantage but I can help him find a tool for it and told him that he’d rather buy a genuine one because we can really never make sure that if we find one it will be permanent but he insisted of using one.  To help everybody who also needs to extend their usage of windows 7 this article is for you.

Way back a year ago this Removing Windows 7 Activator was not available though you can find thousands of article spreading on the net.  Resources that times was so poor and everything needs a thorough searching before coming up to a solution or even leaving the windows 7 Activator problem unsolved.  But now there are a lot of links provided but sad to say that most of the links provided on hotfile, fileserve, etc. have been deleted or the links are directing us to a 404 page.

To help everyone, here is a link where you can download the tool to remove your windows 7 activator.  This worked for my friend using windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.  This should also work on windows 7 32bit.  There are two links, the first link will totally remove the Windows 7 Activator and the second link will give us different choices such as extending usage to number of days or even get a genuine certificate.  You can download both at this links

Downloads:

Removing Windows 7 Activator

Windows 7 Extender

1. Open Regedit by typing Regedit on the search box in windows 7
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell
3. Create a new Key(Right click on shell > new > Key) and name it “Open with Scite”
4. Create a new key under the folder “Open with Scite” and name it command
5. On the right pane you can edit default by double clicking it and add the value C:\Program Files\SciTE Source Code Editor\SciTE.exe %1 or you can have the path to where you installed scite and just add %1 to get it working. 
6. Click ok and everything is ready.

Below is what I had after doing the tweak:

Hope this helped you in using scite on widows 7 platform.

Important Note: This is for experimental purposes only, buying the software is always the best option.

Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) is not a new stuff. Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validation, the component that determines if the software is legitimate) had been mandatory for Office users who want to access Office Update or download add-ons such as free Office 2007 templates for a while, making available Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) crack, although the requirement had since been stopped, allowing everybody, legit or counterfeit, to download updates and freebies.

Office Genuine Advantage Notifications is another component of Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) that displays and shows persistent and nagging notification messages on the screens of PC which is checked to be running illegal copies of Office. Anyway, Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications will always come together with the validation component to determine the genuineness of the Office installed. It marks the first time Microsoft attempts to validate Office installation actively, similar to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) for Windows operating system.

Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications had first been published as KB949810 update to Office users in Italy, Spain, Turkey and Chile in a small pilot program, which did not bring too much complaints due to small user base, except when WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) accidentally published it as critical updates for roughly 24 hours. Microsoft has slowly expanding Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) availability to more countries.  According to Microsoft last August 26, 2009 Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) is now expanded to 13 more countries which includes United States of America (US), United Kingdom (UK), Peru, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Australia, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, India, and Taiwan, making it a total of 41 countries that subject to Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validation.

KB949810 Office Genuine Advantage Notifications will be published through Windows Update and Microsoft Update, as “High Priority” update for Windows XP systems and “Important” update for Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems. The download of Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications is voluntary. Users can opt and choose to NOT install it. But once installed, Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications cannot be installed, and there is no option to temporarily or permanently stop notification messages from displaying.

KB949810 requires end-users to accept an EULA (End User License Agreement) before installation begins, even if the systems have Automatic Updates set to download and install all updates automatically.  To prevent and stop Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Validation and Notifications components to be installed, just deny the EULA.

According KB949810, once a computer has been determined to be running a copy of Office that has failed the Office Genuine Advantage validation process, a message will be displayed during Office program start up:

“This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine.

Please excuse this interruption. This copy of Microsoft Office did not pass validation. Click Learn More for details and for help identifying the best way to get genuine Microsoft Office.

And, a toolbar will be added to non-genuine Office XP and Office 2003 programs or a ribbon element is added to non-genuine Office 2007 programs to display “This copy of Office is not genuine. Click here to learn more”.

Office Genuine Advantage Notifications (KB949810) will be published all systems with Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 or upcoming Office 2010 suites or applications program.

To remove the added menu and notification download the file and follow the instructions provided in the text file with the package.

WGA Remover.rar

If you are having troubles on on how to remove your Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notification then you can visit the link provided (though there is also a way in solving windows media player validation included in the package)but if you have troubles in validating your windows media player 11 then this is the right post for you.

In the past weeks my friend asked me of his problem regarding his windows media player’s validation.  He was able to download the software but before you can install it you need to have it validated.  He installed Winamp as a substitute for his media player but I was thinking that it is not necessary to install another Media Player.  I solved the problem by downloading this file and first thing to do is just doubles click the registry file and then install the set-up file. 

windows media player validation.rar

You can restart your computer or you may not then you can now fully use your Genuine windows media player 11.  Note:  This is only for experimental purposes buying the Microsoft software is always the best option.

To prevent this from happening you need to disable autorun on your computer. And how do you do that? Its really simple and anybody who uses windows XP can do this even my 8 year old cousin can do it. Here are the steps you need to do so that you can disable the autorun in your computer.

Open the gpedit.msc application and this can be done by going to the Start >> Run. Then type gpedit.msc and press enter. gpedit.msc is a built in application of windows xp which can be found in your system32 folder. gpedit.msc is a group policy which controls access to your computer’s applications and other stuff. after opening gpedit.msc you should open the under User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> System the on the right side you can see Turn Off Autoplay. Open it and the enable the policy and set it to all drives. By then autorun will be disabled every time you connect an external device on your computer. Below is the image on how to disable autorun by using the gpedit.msc application.

Disabling autorun on your computer is one big help especially when you use external devices and connect it from one PC to the other. This will prevent computer virus from running on your computer without any of your permission. Aside from disabling your computers autorun, the most important thing to do is always keep your antivirus up to date. This will surely prevent your computer from any attacks.

If you want users to copy the files without any changes the you can just do it by checking the first box.  Then click OK.  To access the file from other users you can go to START and click RUN.  Type the name of the computer you want to access after a double back slash(\\) and click  OK one example is by typing \\weak where weak is the name of the computer I want to access. Before you can access the computer your firewall must be turned off.

or you can use the ip address \\192.168.250.234 or yo can see it by going to my network places and click view workgroup computers and click the PC you wannt to access.

And from here you can see the shared files from other computers.  And if you want them to change the files on your shared folder just check the 2nd check box.  From here other users within the network can make changes to the files and they can even delete it.  So be careful whatever files you are trying to share.