RemoveWGA enables you to remove the Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool, which is calling home and connect to Microsoft servers every time you boot (pilot version), or every two weeks (current release).
Once the WGA Notification tool has checked your OS and has confirmed you had a legit copy, there is no decent point or reason to check it again and again every boot. Moreover, connecting to Microsoft brings security issue for corporate networks, and privacy issues for everyone. It is also unclear which information are transmitted (Microsoft published an official answer, but an individual study brought some questions). All of that, along the fact that Microsoft used deceptive ways to make you install this tool (it was told you it was an urgent security update, whereas it is a new installation giving you no extra security) makes me calling this tool a spyware.
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ChangeLog 1.2 (29 July 2006) :
- Now uses the "RunOnce" registry entry instead of "Run" (starts sooner)
- Added a clean removal procedure for the final WGA notification update
(The final WGA notification is now removed cleanly without any BSOD)
- If every removal procedure fails (possibly for futur WGA versions), offers the brutal removal procedure
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