{"id":131,"date":"2005-07-29T01:45:40","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T08:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2005-08-05T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T05:16:58","slug":"how-to-crack-microsoft-genuine-advantage-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/29\/how-to-crack-microsoft-genuine-advantage-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking Windows &#8220;Genuine Advantage&#8221; Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within 24 hours of Microsoft launching its <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Piracy-check+mandatory+for+Windows+add-ons\/2100-1016_3-5804045.html\" target=\"_blank\">mandatory piracy check<\/a> during Windows update procedure, the process was cracked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before pressing &#8216;Custom&#8217; or &#8216;Express&#8217; buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text railscasts\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:680px;\"><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"line-numbers\"><div>1<br \/><\/div><\/td><td><div class=\"text codecolorer\">javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<p>It turns off the trigger for the key check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What else is new? Bring it on, sucka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Another+way+past+Windows+antipiracy+found\/2100-1002_3-5821113.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5821113&#038;subj=news\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is another way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/07\/28\/microsoft_genuine_ad.html\" target=\"_blank\">boingboing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within 24 hours of Microsoft launching its mandatory piracy check during Windows update procedure, the process was cracked. Before pressing &#8216;Custom&#8217; or &#8216;Express&#8217; buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter: 1javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=&#8217;all&#8217;) It turns off the trigger for the key check. What else is new? Bring it on, sucka. UPDATE: Here is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/29\/how-to-crack-microsoft-genuine-advantage-check\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cracking Windows &#8220;Genuine Advantage&#8221; Check&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-tips-tricks","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-27","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}