Disable Office Genuine
Advantage Notifications
(KB949810)
*Note -
Here are 5 more hacks to
resolve this problem.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, in a bid to
encourage end-users to
buy genuine Microsoft
products. But, if you’re
a legit Office users,
and the OGA validation
has returned
false-positive result,
use the one of the
following hack to
disable Microsoft Office not
genuine notification
messages displayed by OGA Notifications.
Note: Hack below simply
disables 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: 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.
1.Run Registry Editor (RegEdit.exe).
2.Press Ctrl-F to open
search box, and search
for OGAAddin.connect
registry key.
*Note - Just skip the finds that do not have the "Load
Behavior" displayed in the right pane.
Press F3 to continue
searching
3.In the right pane,
right click on Load
Behavior and select
Modify.
4.Change the value data
from 3 to 0.
5.Repeat for each and
every OGAAddin.connect
found.
With this hack, Windows
still treat OGA as
installed, and will not
prompt user to install
again.