Daily Clerks

Microsoft has begun their Genuine Windows initiative again. This time around they are checking to see if the Windows OS you are running is genuine. If it isn’t, you will see annyoing messages to purchase a license for the software.

The cheap way to go around this is to change your automatic updates from installing by themselves to notifying you.

For Windows Xp SP2:

- go to control panel
- select security center
- under the automatic updates, turn off the automatic updates

Now when you see the little bubble pop up, make sure to double click icon and view what the updater is trying to install.

Go to the list and uncheck the Windows Genuine Initiative update.

And that’s it. Sooner or later, someone will probably come out with yet another crack to break this, but in the mean time, this should do.

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