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How to authenticate and authenticate Windows XP?

Windows XP Authentication is a procedure performed by Microsoft to determine if a copy matches installed version operating system and software the profile of the equipment used and license key product. The presence of important license files and their integrity are also compared. All information is archived in a special file that is stored in the kernel of the operating system. The next time you download updates and licensed programs, this check is not required. Consider how to check and authenticate installed Windows XP so that you don't have problems downloading and installing updates and software later.

What do you need to have for OS authentication?

To check Windows XP, you need to determine:

• if an OEM license is purchased, the certificate of authenticity is stuck on the processor case: the COA certificate contains the name of the installed OS and a 25-character key (Product Key);

• if the boxed version of FPP is purchased, the certificate of authenticity is glued directly to the inside of the box: the COA certificate contains the name of the installed OS and a 25-character key (Product Key).

To confirm the right to use the installed Windows versions XP should keep all original components of the licensed product. The product components include: a box with a SOA pasted on it, an OS installation disc with a hologram and a printed version of the license. It is necessary to keep all available payment documents confirming the purchase of the product.

How do I authenticate Windows XP?

There are several ways to authenticate Windows XP. One of them is to check the authenticity of a copy of the operating system on the Microsoft site. By clicking on the "Check now" button, it is possible to check the installed version of the operating system online. If the authenticity of the OS components is confirmed, a message about the successful operation will appear.

The second method of OS authentication occurs when a user tries to install or update any Microsoft software, such as a media player Windows Media... During the installation of the software product, a window pops up offering to verify the authenticity of Windows XP now. In this case, the installation or the first launch of the software product may be blocked until the end of the OS authentication procedure.


To go through the procedure, you must click the "Check" button, after an automatic successful check, the application will be installed or launched in normal mode.

You can also verify the authenticity of Windows XP by downloading the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications utility from Microsoft to your computer. This application will tell you whether the original version of the OS is installed or not. On the company's website, notes indicate that once the application is installed on a computer, it cannot be uninstalled.

How do I authenticate Windows XP?

When Windows installation XP and Microsoft software products through the corporation's website, the delivery may include various key options depending on the software:

• product key;
• Multiple install key (VLK-key)
• activation key and others.

Keys are not proof of the authenticity of Windows XP and software. The right of the PC owner to use the installed version of the OS is confirmed only by the presence of a license agreement and does not depend on the available keys. Therefore, the use of the same key for several copies of Windows XP or the mismatch of the key with the installed copy of the OS is not a sign of counterfeit. The license agreement can be obtained electronically through the closed sites of the corporation. This agreement is as legitimate as the paper version.

To confirm the authenticity of the OS installed during assembly by the manufacturer, you must have a certificate of authenticity, which is glued to the device case. If any parts of the SOA certificate were damaged during the assembly process, but the name of the operating system and protective elements are easily readable, further operation of the OS as a licensed version is possible. If any of the data cannot be read, the COA certificate must be replaced.

Remember that replacing the Windows XP certificate with this moment suspended due to the withdrawal from the sale of this OS. Therefore, to confirm the authenticity of the OS, it is recommended to install Windows XP from a legitimate media containing this SOA certificate.

If the certificate is installation disk missing or lost, but all the keys are present, such an operating system cannot be used as a licensed one and must be replaced with a legitimate product. In this case, Windows XP cannot be authenticated.

If on your computer with Windows OS installed, inscriptions like:

Windows Authentication Notification Tool ( Windows Genuine Advantage Notification) will tell you if your copy of Windows is not genuine. If the system is not genuine, this tool will help you obtain a licensed copy of Windows.

For more information about the update, go to: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39157 "

“You may have purchased a counterfeit copy of the software. This copy of Windows was not authenticated "

“This copy of Windows was not authenticated and the issue has not been resolved. This copy of Windows is not eligible for the full range of updates and support from Microsoft. To protect your copy of Windows, click the "Allow" button

Windows Authentication Results Notification Tool - Setup Wizard

Windows Authentication Notification

Introduction

Windows Authentication Results Notifications are part of Microsoft's Anti-Computer Piracy Policy. Installing this program will allow you to verify the authenticity of the copy of Windows installed on your computer.

If the copy of Windows is not genuine, this program will periodically display reminders to take action and protect your computer from security threats posed by counterfeit software.

What is Windows Authentication Results Notifier? (on the Internet) ”, etc., it means that you have installed the KB905474 update on your computer, which only verifies the authenticity of the software installed on your computer. This update could have been installed without your knowledge, if in the updates section there is a checkmark on the item " Automatic update».

(Some even believe that these are the tricks of evil hackers, since they did not download anything from the Internet. But no, it was just Uncle Bill Gates who did his best).

This update has a number and stands for Windows Genuine Advantage Notification, that is, Windows XP authentication, in other words, a pirated or licensed copy of windows xp is installed on your personal computer... It does not bring any particular inconvenience to the user, and you may well continue to work. However, if this window is very annoying to you, you can remove it without any problems. Two files are responsible for displaying such a window - WgaTray.exe (Windows Authentication Notifications, size 329 KB) and WgaLogon.dll (size 231 KB). These files are located in the following directory: \ WINDOWS \ system32.

So how do you uninstall Windows Authenticator from your PC or laptop? It's very simple - you just need to clean the registry, or rather delete one entry there. This can be done by downloading and running the KB905474-Uninstaller.exe file, or manually.

To do this, you need to call the registry editor - click the "Start" button in the lower left corner - Run - enter "regedit" (without quotes) - click OK. A registry editor window will appear, then we find the following directory:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ Notify \ WgaLogon

and delete it.

If you do not quite understand what needs to be done or if you are too lazy to deal with the registry, download the wga.reg file in the archive and run it. A registry window will appear asking: "Are you sure you want to add information from wga.reg to the registry?" - click "Yes", you get a message that the data from the wga.reg file has been successfully entered into the registry - click "OK" again. After rebooting the system, this window should no longer disturb your peace.

However, this does not always help, it is also not always possible to find a branch with the \ WgaLogon package in the registry on the computer, in other words, it simply is not there. It means that you recently installed / reinstalled the system and / or you have a fairly fresh copy.

Then the Windows Authentication Results Notifier should be removed as follows.

Go to the folder with installed Windows XP (usually C: \ WINDOWS), click "Search" on the toolbar at the top. Enter the phrase "wga" in the "Files and folders" column. After a short search, you will be shown all the files associated with the KB905474 update. These can be either text files, logs (they do not have to be deleted), or executable files with the .exe extension located in the Windows / system32, Windows / system32 / dllcache, Windows / SYSTEM32 / KB905474 directories. In the C: \ WINDOWS \ Prefetch folder there will also be a mention of WGA - the WGANOTIFYPACKAGEINNER.EXE-24665926.pf file.

But usually it is enough to delete one folder KB905474 located in the directory:

C: \ WINDOWS \ SYSTEM32 \ KB905474.

It contains the files:

wganotifypackageinner.exe

You delete this folder in the most ruthless way, then go to:

Start - Control Panel - Scheduled Tasks - WGASetup - delete this task to delete and erase from memory (computer) the last mentions of the results notification tool Windows Authentication

Reboot your car and enjoy life and clear skies over your head further. If you have any questions or suggestions, please write them in the comments below.

PS. And don't forget to uncheck the box here:

Start - Control Panel - Automatic update - Automatic (recommended), otherwise Windows authentication will be installed on your computer in the most insidious way.

How to disable Windows XP authentication

The fight against counterfeit Windows began a long time ago. One of the methods of this struggle is a utility called Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), which is installed on the computer. when receiving scheduled updates from Windows Update. This means that every computer on which auto-update is enabled will receive this special subroutine that will check the computer and then notify the user that the system installed on his PC is unlicensed.

First, let's start with the fact that we will not now consider the moral, ethical, legal aspects of using an unlicensed copy of Windows and the onset of responsibility for this. Any person wishing to engage in any kind of activity must be prepared for certain risks associated with this activity and understand the possibility of unpleasant consequences. Which version you use is your own business and your problems.

Attention!!! The following methods for disabling Windows XP authentication are taken from various sources, found on the web, on forums, etc. and are valid for Windows XP on a desktop computer, since I personally checked it on my PC. Unfortunately, I cannot say for sure how to apply them on laptops, Vista and Win7. Therefore, be careful and use all this "at your own peril and risk." And if you do not want to risk and get rid of such problems forever, buy licensed Windows.

So, using an unlicensed operating system (namely, we will talk about it) with activated auto-update, along with scheduled updates, you will definitely receive a package called Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474), due to which the problems described below arise.

Someone will say, why install updates from Microsoft in general and such as (KB905474) in particular. You can, of course, and so, but after a while your operating system will begin to malfunction due to lack of security updates, or it will simply become outdated.

Immediately I want to make a reservation that it is possible to configure updates not in automatic mode, and in either of the two proposed alternative modes, as indicated in Figure 1.

In these cases, you will be able to control and "filter" the installation of updates. What prevents you from weeding out KB905474 even at the stage of downloading updates? But, I would not say that it is good way solving the problem, since periodically you have to be distracted from the main work and in the end it gets boring.

Let's see what we'll have after automatic installation package Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474):

First, you receive a window with the following notification:

Fig. 2

If you have met all the requirements that were in the first window, after a while you will be informed about Windows licensing problems and offered solutions. See Figure 3.

Fig. 3

As a result, you will receive a picturesque banner in the lower right part of the desktop, which, like an obsessive fly, will relentlessly remind you how bad you are and offer to make the procedure for purchasing a licensed copy.
Figures 4 and 5.

Fig. 4

Fig. 5

You don't need to turn off Windows auto-update at all. This has already been discussed. And reinstalling the system is also not worth it. There are several simple ways to solve the problem.

How to solve the problem?

Perform the following steps one at a time:

1. delete the folder "KB905474".

If the installation is not complete, open the folder C: \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ KB905474 where the files are located wganotifypackageinner.exe, wgasetup.exe, wga_eula.txt.
Reboot into safe mode and remove wgasetup.exe or the entire folder with its contents.

2. Registry.

Launching Registry Editor: Start -> Run, we type.

Fig. 6

You need to delete the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ Notify \ WgaLogon.
Everything! This is the easiest and most effective way!

After restarting the operating system, the Windows counterfeit message will no longer appear.

3. Site blocking.

To the end of the file C: \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ drivers \ etc \ hosts add the line:
127.0.0.1 mpa.one.microsoft.com

Fig. 7

Fig. 8

WGA Validation 1.9.9.1 Crack for hacking Windows protection from piracy.
Year of issue: 2009.

After installing this crack, Windows is normally authenticated, and you can download updates from "Windows Update", "Microsoft Download Center" and "Microsoft Update".

Installation:
Unpack the archive to any folder and run installer.bat.

5.

Allows you to download updates from the Microsoft website without a license key.
Year of issue: 2010.

Works on all versions of Windows where authentication is required when downloading updates from Microsoft sites.

Allows you to download updates:

Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7 Internet Explorer Windows Media Player

Installation:
run Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation v6 .exe and follow the program prompts.

Fig. 9

WgaTray.exe, 329 KB in size, which actually launches the notification itself and the WgaLogon.dll file, 231 KB in size.

How to remove the authentication message in Windows XP.

Let's start the registry editor, this is - (Start - Run WIN + R - regedit - Enter)

Next, we find the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ WindowsNT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ Notify \ WgaLogon
After that, we delete the entire WgaLogon section (doubters can make a copy of this section beforehand)
Rebooting the system
After reboot, the authentication message will disappear.

How to clear the authentication message in Windows 7

As for Windows 7, we remove it using the RemoveWAT21 program.
Download this program (you can search for it on the Internet)
Remove old activation
Reactivate and permanently remove authentication
Detailed instructions are described in the program itself, the whole operation takes place literally in three clicks.

How to authenticate Windows 7, XP

What needs to be done to remove the annoying notification? Based on the above, the answer suggests itself - delete or rename the files responsible for the notification. Also, when installing update KB905474, the system created copies in the cache, which are located at the following address:

WINDOWS \ system32 \ DllCache \ (WgaLogon.dll, WgaTray.exe)

which can also be deleted.
You can also solve the problem with the notification by making some changes in the Windows registry. The key responsible for the work
notices, located in the registry at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \

CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ Notify \ WgaLogon.

We go into the registry, through Start → Run, type the regedit command and, having penetrated the branch to the WgaLogon key, delete it.

When working with the registry, one must be extremely careful not to commit irreparable mistakes. For those who have no experience or are simply afraid of these manipulations, the Autoruns program will come to the rescue, which gives access to the registry and all the processes running in it. Launch Autoruns, go to the Winlogon tab, uncheck the box next to the WgaLogon key, close the program and reboot. In the presented case, this key is not present, since to joy the system is not affected by this muck Also, by clicking on the Everything tab, you can access all processes running on the system by cleaning from malware and banners.

Option with hosts

Find hosts file, located at:

\ Windows \ system32 \ drivers \ etc \ hosts

open it with notepad and enter the following line at the bottom of it:

127.0.0.1 mpa.one.microsoft.com

Then, by opening access to hidden folders delete the following file Documents and Settings \ All Users \ Application Data \ Windows Genuine Advantage \ data \ data.dat.
After that, going to Windows Update, you update without any problems.
After the performed operations, you need to restart the computer.
That's it, now your Windows is functioning like new.

For a long time in the Windows updates XP includes a program that checks your system for authenticity. Roughly speaking, this software allows the developer to find out whether a licensed or pirated version of the operating system is installed on your computer. This utility does not block access to the computer, does not ask to send SMS. It only removes the picture from the desktop, replacing it with a black screen, and displays a message: “This copy Windows was not authenticated».

In fact, the program assumes that your system is licensed, but for some reason you failed verification... It was just such an unfortunate incident that happened to my friend. The task was set - to remove the message from the screen, as well as return the picture to the desktop. It was this case that helped me write this article, because those who bought the operating system legally are not at all obliged to suffer from such misunderstandings:

In fact, the problem is more than simple to solve. Our main and only tool will be the Autoruns program familiar from the article "how to remove a virus from a USB flash drive" ... You can download the Autoruns program from our website.

Uncheck the box next to this program and restart your computer. As we can see, the problem was solved simply and efficiently.
Finally, I would like to say a few banal words. Dear friends, despite all of the above, I strongly advise you to install a licensed operating system on your computer and highly discourage installing all kinds of Windows assemblies "From the Beast" and other "home-grown" system manufacturers.

OTHER WAYS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

After the update called "KB905474 (Windows Genuine Advantage Notification)", in the lower right corner of the screen, you will see - a beautiful sign

“You may have purchased a counterfeit copy of the software. This copy of Windows was not authenticated. "

two files are responsible for this plate:

C: \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ WgaTray.exe

C: \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ WgaLogon.dll

WgaTray.exe constantly "hangs" in the memory, and if you turn it off through Task Manager, it starts over.

there are several ways to solve this problem.

let's start with registry

To eliminate the sign, you just need to edit the Windows registry.

Attention! Be careful when manipulating the Registry !!!

Go to Start > Execute> a window appears with the name “ Launching the program»In it we write regedit and click OK.

The Registry editor opens, in it we look for and delete WgaLogon... To get to the desired section, you need to go:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE> SOFTWARE> Microsoft> Windows NT> CurrentVersion> Winlogon> Notify> WgaLogon(delete).

Actually that's all!

If you are having trouble manually editing the Registry

Download and unzip the file, Run the wga.reg file. The Registry Editor dialog box "Are you sure you want to add information from wga.reg to the registry?" - click Yes. The Registry Editor dialog box will appear with a message that the data from the wga.reg file has been successfully entered into the registry - click OK.

After restarting the operating system, a message about the detected unlicensed version of Windows will not alarm!

To whom this did not help, you can use the utilities AntiWGA 3.0, WGAOGA _Kill... Look for download links in Yandex and Google.

http://www.filecluster.com/downloads/RemoveWGA.html - more link

All actions with Windows registry you produce at your own risk.