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Old 10-25-2007, 04:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
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One of my clients received this error message in a legal vlk XP Pro laptop. to fix it I used Hijackthis delete on reboot to delete wgatray.exe and then replaced 2 files called legitcheckcontroll.dll and legitcheckcontrol.inf in system32, reboot and it worked
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Yes those are the 2 files that WGA uses for it check. There is also a way to hack them and change them as well.
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Do tell.
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Yes those are the 2 files that WGA uses for it check. There is also a way to hack them and change them as well.
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I have the instructions written out on my site. Only cause it doesnt break any of my rules.
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That's a lot more steps than what I used but if it works, it works.
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It has worked several times for me before. It sucks when they update the WGA. But it will allow for WGA to be passed and you to download all necessary updates.
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