# Genuine windows?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 17, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096 "2006-08-17T19:31:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096/1 "2006-08-17T19:31:58Z")
yeah… so can anyone help me thru the process of making windows genuine? 😉
the “program” d/led from microsoft isnt working
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### Author:  [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096/2 "2006-08-17T20:05:38Z")
You installed the WGA windows update,that you are supposed to un-check LOL.
I had that problem too,then one of my spyware programs took it off or I might have deleted it when using hijack this.I re-booted it and the startup WGA screen was gone.
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096/3 "2006-08-17T21:18:35Z")
Bittorrent, and look for a file called, “Everything you need to get around WGA”
If you can’t get it PM me, I wont be arounf til like the 25th, but I have it and it works 🙂
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096/4 "2006-08-17T22:50:39Z")
just google genuine windows…there is a prog out there to help ay with this
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096/5 "2006-08-18T08:11:05Z")
> [@Jon](#):
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> You installed the WGA windows update,that you are supposed to un-check LOL.
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> I had that problem too,then one of my spyware programs took it off or I might have deleted it when using hijack this.I re-booted it and the startup WGA screen was gone.
Oh yea and you can no longer do that, before you can update you have to pass a WGA scan. Supposedly there is a way around it by pasting in a javascript line that turns off the WGA check. Didnt work for me when I tried.
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### Author:  [@Skurge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skurge)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096/6 "2006-08-18T08:34:15Z")
steve i’ll look tonight on dons comp to see if i can find that one program i used to have
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/genuine-windows/16096/7 "2006-08-18T08:42:13Z")
> [@FightinMike](#):
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> Oh yea and you can no longer do that, before you can update you have to pass a WGA scan. Supposedly there is a way around it by pasting in a javascript line that turns off the WGA check. Didnt work for me when I tried.
figures… that must be why it wasn’t working for me lol
I followed the instructions on the “patch” and it told me that it didnt detect WGA. It said that it was released on july 28th of this year though, so I figured it was a good one.
Chris, if you can find that… that would be awesome :tup: although I have a feeling that it might not work anymore