After installing
Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications (KB949810) from Windows Update,
OGA Validation will perform genuine test on installed
Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010
software. If Office product is validated as not genuine, “This copy of Microsoft
Office is not genuine” notification message will be displayed on notification
area (system tray), at splash screen during Office program (i.e. Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Outlook) startup, and at Office’s toolbar or ribbon with extra “Get
Genuine Office” tab or element.
KB949810 OGA Notifications update is designed so that end-user cannot uninstall
or removed the update using “Add and Remove Programs” or “Program and Features”
in the
Control
Panel
Note: Hack below simply remove and disable OGA Notifications so that no notification message about Office not genuine is not displayed, and works on most versions of OGA Notifications. It doesn’t crack or patch OGA Validation component, OGACheckControl.dll, which does the validation process to determine if the Office product is genuine or not.
Hack 1: Disable OGAAddin.dll from Loading
with Office
Applications
OGAAddin.dll (and OGAVerify.exe) is a few files that been installed by OGA Notifications. OGAAddin.dll allowed OGA Notifications to install as an add-in to applications in Office productivity suites to display not genuine reminder message to illegitimate and illegal copy of Office. By stopping the OGAAddin load behavior and preventing OGAAddin.dll from loading, the Office Genuine Advantage Notifications message can be suppressed.
With this hack, Windows still treat OGA as installed, and will not prompt user to install again. |
Hack 2: Disable and Remove OGAAddin from
within Office Applications
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Hack 3: Delete and Remove (Uninstall)
Office Genuine Advantage Notifications Components Although Microsoft does not allow OGA Notifications to be uninstall, but that does not mean that individual file components of OGA Notifications cannot be deleted, removed or uninstalled manually. To disable OGA Notifications and uninstall KB949810, close and exit from all Office applications (including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Visio and etc.), and search for the following files in %SystemDrive%\Wndows\System32 folder and %SystemDrive%\Windows\SysWow64 folder (for 64-bit OS x64 only). OGAVerify.exe Delete the above files. It’s also possible rename the files so that system cannot find them. |
Hack 4: Remove OGAAddin.connect Registry
Key in System Registry Pretty much similar to method 1 and 2, but it’s quicker and will complete remove trace of OGAAddin.connect from registry. Unlike hack 1, Windows Update may prompt you to install again.
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Hack 5: Properly Uninstall KB949810 OGA
Notification via OGANotifier.msi Tip by AnonyMouse Easy to uninstall. Just follow these steps:
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There is also an
official Windows Installer method of uninstalling OGA,
Belt-and-Braces approach submitted by one of the reader, shown below:
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With any one of the hacks above, no more Office Genuine Advantage notification message will be displayed and showed on system, regardless of genuine status of the Office software, unless of course, end-user chooses to reinstall KB949810.