Saturday, February 25, 2006

Microsoft Genuine Advantage

This article is specifically to tell you how to disable Microsoft Genuine Advantage. You know, the software that doesn't allow you to check for updates without verifying your CD key on the Microsoft Update site. So here we go...
First, you must navigate using Internet Explorer of course to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. Once you get past installing whatever things you need to get to the page that has two buttons on it that say:
"Express"
"Custom"
You need to paste the following code in your browser's address bar and hit enter:
javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')
This turns off the trigger for the key check. Once you've done that you're home free.
On a closing note, Internet Explorer is awful. Please consider using Firefox for all of your browsing needs that don't include Microsoft Sites. Thank you and good day.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

see this site for an alternative to Windows Update that works in Firefox and Opera (among others).