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Windows Genuine Advantage
Name: Harry (by Hugger1) Date: July 27, 2006 at 09:48:01 Pacific OS: XP Home SP 2 CPU/Ram: 550 MHZ / 640 MB Product: Northern Micro
Comment:
A while back someone posted how to get rid of those annoying Windows Genuine Advantage message sthat pop up when you start a PC if you're not running a 100% legal version of Windows. I used it and it worked well. But now the messages are back again and do you think I can find the post? Nope. Does anyone recall this? I think they included instructions from Micro$oft on how to remove them amongst other ideas.
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