comp help maybe needed

[beyelzu]

i have had some comp issues. once upon a time i was getting seriously infected and i got a buddy to reformat my harddrive and install windows xp. i had me at the time.

so my comp was working fine for almost a year after that.

i didnt use it for awhile got a new case and put everything in it.

but one of my harddrives had crapped out.

no big deal it was a small 40 gig one anyway.

but now windows insists that my copy of windows isnt legitimate.

what should i do?

oh, and it definitely is not legitimate.

[ceptimus]

So it's illegitimate eh? That's a bastard.

Some options are:
Reinstall Windows (either a legitimate copy - the OEM version is reasonably priced, or a fresh cracked copy downloaded off BitTorrent or similar - though you'll need a working PC to do that, of course)
Install Linux (though you'll need to be interested in doing that, be something of a :geek: and it's not much use for playing Windows games)


I don't know how you'd repair your existing broken copy, but hopefully someone here will have some useful advice. :crossed:

[Petra]

Another option is to just go through the validation process, which at one point will ask you if you'd like to buy a license to make it legit, then buy the license. :shrug:

[beyelzu]

im morally opposed to paying for windows if i can help it.

and it still works, it just keeps harping about my illegitimacy.

[beyelzu]

im worried that it might stop working at some point but as near as i can tell it still works it just tells microsoft that im a pirating bastard.

wiki said that its got something like a 90percent false positive rate.

[But]

there is the option of changing to another haxx0red key from a keygen, but I didn't bother and just told windows to stop complaining about it. Works fine.

[beyelzu]

how did you tell windows to shut up, the little pop up balloon is mui irritating.

specially when it comes up while im playing a game.

[curses]

This (http://blog.mypapit.net/2006/05/windows-genuine-advantage-tattoo-cracks.html) might be of some help, though I haven't had to try it...yet.

[But]

I think it went like this (I certainly did something with the registry, can't remember what):

1. Lauch Windows Task Manager.
2. End wgatray.exe process in Task Manager.
3. Restart Windows XP in Safe Mode.
4. Delete WgaTray.exe from c: \Windows\System32.
5. Delete WgaTray.exe from c: \Windows\System32\dllcache.
6. Lauch RegEdit.
7. Browse to the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
8. Delete the folder ‘WgaLogon’ and all its contents
9. Reboot Windows XP.

Disable and Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Nag Screen » My Digital Life (http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/26/disable-and-remove-windows-genuine-advantage-notifications-nag-screen/)

The only thing that's left is the little icon in the system tray, but it doesn't do anything.

[beyelzu]

thank you ever so much.