Activate Windows 7 using Windows Loader. Windows loader is a very simple way to make windows genuine. I am also using windows loader to activate windows 7 and make it genuine forever. Just follow my steps and you will also able to make it genuine. Download Windows 7 Activator. First, go to this link 4shared and download the software. To disable Ultimate Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) once for all, simply download and install WGA remover. Updated in August, 2012 – this version of WGA Remover is recommended for Windows7. But users say it also works on XP, Vista, 7 and even Windows 8. WGA Remover 2012 for Windows7 (1.6 MiB, 3,395,120 downloads) Password: fixexe. If your computer came with an authentic, pre-installed copy of Windows 7, you may be able to find the key on your Certificate of Authenticity (COA) sticker. If you've already installed and activated your Windows 7, you can use the Command Prompt or a free, third-party app to find it. Microsoft Genuine Advantage Diagnostic Tool can diagnose and resolve issues with Microsoft Genuine Advantage components. In other words, it was designed to resolve licensing issues. If you have a valid product code for Windows or Microsoft Office and are having trouble activating, this is the tool you need. It has seven tabs. Hasher is a small, portable and easy to use freeware tool that is able to calculate SHA1, MD5 and CRC32 checksums for a single file. You can browse for the file, drag and drop or add a context menu entry to right click and choose “Generate Hash”.
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The Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool is a system that was designed and created by Microsoft in order to implement online validation of their most recent operating systems. In one of the more recent operating systems, Windows 7, the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Validation Tool is renamed to Activation Technologies. This tool (WGA) is made up of two components:
- The WGA Notification, which is a component that is installed onto the system. It attaches itself to the Winlogon so that it can validate the authenticity of the operating system every time you boot up.
- The second component is an ActiveX Control; this is used to validate the licence of the operating system when the user attempts to download a Windows Update.
The WGA Notification is able to validate Windows XP/Vista/7 & 8 operating systems only. The ActiveX Control on the other hand, is able to validate all of the above including Windows 2000.
The WGA, when installed on your computer, will advertise the latest service packs for your operating system, this is especially the case with Windows XP based system. WGA was originally a voluntary system, which was changed to mandatory in July 2005.
The Installation Process
Whether or not the Windows genuine advantage validation tool installs on your system, depends on your Windows Update settings. In most cases, the tool will be downloaded automatically, then install itself when you next restart the computer. During the installation process, you may or may not be able to review the licence terms and choose whether or not to decline the update. If you choose to decline the install, then the operating system will never ask you to install the update again. Once the license terms and installation process has been completed, you will be greeted with the occasional update, relevant to your version of Windows.
After the installation is complete, the tool will run its validation process in order to verify whether or not your copy of Windows is genuine. If your copy of Windows is found not to be genuine, then when you next restart the computer, you will be presented with various notifications. The notifications will inform you that your copy of Windows is not genuine and then present you with the appropriate option(s) to resolve it. However, if your operating system passes the validation process, then you won’t be greeted with any notification.
If you opt to download the Windows genuine advantage validation tool directly from the Microsoft Download Center, then you will be taken through the typical installation process to apply the update. This will include you having to review and agree to the licence terms of the update. However, once the tool has been installed onto your computer, there’s no install shield that you can run to uninstall it.
When WGA Validation Fails
On systems running Windows Vista without any install service packs, failure of WGA validation has a much harder felt impact then on other platforms. In addition to the notifications, that persistently show up, across the screen, and the disabling of non-critical updates, the Windows genuine advantage validation tool also disables Windows Defender, Windows Aero and Windows ReadyBoost. The user is then given a certain period of time to authenticate Windows Vista, after which the entire operating system will be disabled, restricting the user to using the system in a reduced functionality mode. However, this does not occur on Windows Vista systems that have Service Pack 1 running on them, instead, the user will simply be inundated with notifications.
On Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Vista Business, the user will initially be presented with a pop-up notification. However, once the user boots into the system, they’ll find that the wallpaper has been changed to black, and on the lower right hand side of the screen, there will be a notice, which cannot be removed. However, the user will still be able to interact with objects in and around the notices. Windows XP users will also be presented with a notification on the login screen. However, the user will be able to change the wallpaper to whatever he/she likes, but after an hour has lapsed, it will revert back to the black wallpaper.
Below, I’ve outlined a number of methods that you can use to remove the Windows genuine advantage validation tool, once it has been installed and is running on your computer.
Manually Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool
This is a fairly complicated procedure that will require you to edit your registry, modify certain system files and restart your system a number of times. Though, if you’re adamant about removing this tool, this is the only sure-fire way of doing it. Anyway, to manually remove the Windows genuine advantage validation tool, simply do the following.
1. First, log into your computer with full administrative rights.
2. Then click on Start -> Run [Windows Vista/7: Press + R], type %Windir%system32 and click on OK.
3. This will take you to your System32 folder, from here, you’ll want to right click on WgaLogon.dll, and then click on Rename.
4. Then change WgaLogon.dll to WgaLogon.old.
5. You’ll always need to change the file extension of WgaTray.exe, however, in order to do this, you’ll need to download and install Change Type, which is a file extension editor program. To acquire this tool, I suggest you check out my post on changing file extensions.
Once you have the tool up and running on your system, simply right click on WgaTray.exe, and then click on Change Type.
6. This will bring up a small applet, from here, change the file extension from exe to old, and click on OK.
7. Once you’ve changed the file extension of these two files, restart your computer.
8. When you’re computer has finished rebooting. Click on Start -> Run, type cmd and click on OK. [Windows Vista/7: Start -> Type cmd (into the Search programs and files box) and Press CTRL + Shift + Enter, then click on Continue]
9. This will bring up Command Prompt, from here you’ll want to type Regsvr32 %Windir%system32LegitCheckControl.dll /u and then press Enter.
10. Once you’ve successfully unregistered the LegitCheckControl.dll file by using Regsvr32, restart your computer, once again.
11. When your computer finishes rebooting for the second time. Load up Command Prompt again, by clicking on Start -> Run, typing cmd and clicking on OK. [Windows Vista/7: Start -> Type cmd (into the Search programs and files box) and Press CTRL + Shift + Enter, then click on Continue]
12. On Command Prompt, you’ll need to type Del %Windir%system32wgalogon.old then press Enter.
13. Then type Del %Windir%system32WgaTray.old and press Enter.
14. Finally, type Del %Windir%system32LegitCheckControl.dll and press Enter, to delete the last and final WGA file.
15. Close the Command Prompt and click on Start -> Run [Windows Vista/7: Press + R], type regedit and click on OK.
WARNING: Delete or editing the wrong registry entry can cause irreparable damage to your operating system.
16. This will bring up the Registry Editor; from here you’ll want to navigate to the following path:
17. Then right click on the WgaLogon sub key and select Delete.
18. Once you’ve successfully deleted the first sub key, navigate to the next path:
19. Then right click on the WgaNotify sub key and select Delete.
20. Once you’ve done, restart your computer and you’re finished.
Use System Restore
If you think manually removing the Windows genuine advantage validation tool is too complicated, then you may want to try System Restore. However, this method only works if you’ve only just recently installed the Windows Genuine Advantage notification. All one needs to do is use system restore to set the computer back to a restore point prior to the installation of the WGA update, then configure you’re computer so that you can pick and choose which updates you would like to install, that way you can refuse the installation of the WGA update.
Anyway, to utilise this method, you’ll first need to have some understanding of how to use System Restore to set your system back. Fortunately I’ve written a post on this feature, so I suggest you check it out here.
Once you’ve set your system back, you’ll want to change your Automatic Update Settings. This can be done by doing the following.
1. First, ensure you’ve logged into your computer with administrative rights.
2. Then click on Start -> Control Panel.
3. Once the Control Panel loads up, double click on Automatic Updates.
4. This will bring up Automatic Updates applet, from here click on Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them. Then click on Apply and OK.
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When you download a file from the internet, quite often you cannot be 100% guaranteed that the file has not been changed in some way from the original. This could either be by the site you are downloading from, corruption due to errors in the download process, an individual who has uploaded the file for you, or possibly the most dangerous, the file has been infected by malicious software.
One of the ways you can identify whether a file has been changed from its original state is to check its digital signature. Or you can verify a file’s integrity by checking its hash value. Every file has unique data contained within it, and when you apply a certain algorithm called a “cryptographic hash function” to it, a string value is returned which is only valid for that file in its current state.
If even one byte in the file changes, the value given when the check is run again will be different. A couple of popular hash algorithms are MD5 and SHA-1 and you will sometimes see these values listed on website download pages. A prime example is ISO images for operating systems like Linux and Windows. All the official Windows ISO images will have an SHA-1 hash listed somewhere online which you can then compare against to see if the one you downloaded is identical to the original.
If you have something like an MD5 or an SHA based hash value from a website and want to check the integrity of the downloaded file, a way to calculate its hash value is required. Here we show you 10 different tools that can calculate and compare hash values, they were tested on Windows 10 and 7.
1. IgorWare HasherHasher is a small, portable and easy to use freeware tool that is able to calculate SHA1, MD5 and CRC32 checksums for a single file. You can browse for the file, drag and drop or add a context menu entry to right click and choose “Generate Hash”. There’s also an option to generate a hash from a block of text which you can type or paste into the box. The program opens a window for each file you select so don’t open more than a couple at once.
In addition to copying or saving the hash result to a file, you can load the hash file back into the program to check against another or the same file. The Options menu has some useful settings like keeping the program on top, making the hash values upper case, auto calculating after drag and drop, and adding the context menu entry. For some strange reason, Igorware Hasher downloads as a RAR file so make sure you have an archiver like WinRAR or 7-Zip to open it.
Download IgorWare Hasher
2. HashCheck
HashCheck works in a slightly different way to a traditional checking tool because it integrates into the system’s file properties window. You’ll get an extra tab called Checksums alongside the standard tabs of Compatibility, Details, Previous versions and etc. The original Hashcheck is from 2009 but seems to work fine in Windows 10. A more recent version is available on GitHub which we’ll also mention below.
The tiny (85KB) installer simply registers HashCheck.dll on the system so it’s very light on resources. Right click on one or more files or a folder and go to Properties > Checksums. Values for CRC-32, MD4, MD5, and SHA-1 will be shown in the window. The Save button can save the selected file checksums into a separate list for each hashing method which you can load later on to see if any of the files have changed.
A list can be created quickly from the context menu by right clicking on the file(s) and selecting “Create checksum file”.
Download HashCheck
As HashCheck is open source software, someone has taken the original code and updated it while adding some new features. Notable improvements include multithreading support, adding SHA-256 and SHA-512 (MD4 has been removed), calculating only selected checksums, adding extra translations, and digitally signing the files/installer.
This version of HashCheck is much newer and from 2016. It was created by Christopher Gurnee and is hosted on GitHub. MD5 and SHA-3 are disabled by default in this version but can easily be enabled in the Options window.
Download HashCheck 2.4 From GitHub
3. Nirsoft HashMyFiles
HashMyFiles is another small and portable tool from Nir Sofer that is simple and straightforward to use. The number of ways to open files is impressive because you can add single or multiple files, folders (including sub folders), running processes, and also by wildcard with custom folder depth. There’s also the Explorer context menu which can be manually enabled. The program shows hashes for CRC32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. General file information is also included in the display.
HashMyFiles can export the data to a TXT, HTML, XML or CSV file but you can’t use it to load back into the program to re-check files later on. A number of command line arguments are also available and other functions like always on top, extra file information, uppercase text, and send the hash to VirusTotal are in the Options menu. Also in the Options menu, “Mark Hash in Clipboard” compares a hash in the clipboard with the files and will show a match in green. “Mark Identical Hashes” shows the same files in differing colors.
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4. HashTools
HashTools is from software developer BinaryFortress who make well known shareware applications like DisplayFusion and ClipboardFusion. This program is portable and will accept an individual file, multiple files or an entire folder for processing. An option to add a “Hash with HashTools” entry to the context menu is in the Settings window.
When you add files to HashTools they will not be processed until you press one of the buttons across the bottom to calculate the appropriate checksums. CRC32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 are supported. The Create SFV button will create CRC32 checksums for the files and save them into an SFV file which you can use to verify later on. Right clicking a file will allow copying of the hash or its path along with supplying a hash manually or from the clipboard to compare with.
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5. ComputeHash 2.0
ComputeHash is a small and very simple tool to use with no advanced or confusing features. It works entirely from the Windows context menu and you simply right click on a file and select the “Computer Hash” option. It will display MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 hashes all at once. Double click the executable to add the entry to the context menu, use uninstall.bat to remove it again.
Each checksum can be copied to the clipboard, or all values can be saved to a text file. The uppercase checkbox might make the values a bit easier to read. ComputeHash requires .Net Framework 2 so Windows 10 users will be prompted to install it if it’s not already installed. We are looking at version 2.0 from 2011 here, there is a version 4.4 from 2015 but we found it doesn’t display the checksums properly in Windows 7 or Windows 10.
Download ComputeHash 2.0
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Process in PowerShell
Get-Filehash -path c:foofilename.exe -algorithm SHA1
for filename.exe in the C:foo folder to generate an SHA1 hash.
Full details here for documentation
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/get-filehash?view=powershell-6
What I really want is a tool that will generate a CRC64 for single or multiple files / folder; And then append this checksum to the files “extended attributes” so that it is forever linked to the file. This would allow the file to be tested for corruption easily. (I know it is not perfect but good enough for most of us).
It would also allow another program to quickly find potential duplicate files. This would be very fast as each file already has its own checksum.
This seems a very simple idea – it must have been done – can anyone suggest suitable windows apps?
I know I’m stating the obvious, but one reason this simple idea isn’t realized to the extent you would like is the fact that many, if not most, files change due to legitimate update via patches, and of course data files are frequently edited. And of course any compressed file in a lossy format will change if opened and re-saved.
ReplyThe problem with adding anything to a files “extended attributes” is like this:
1. A file’s extended attributes are a part of the file. Add or change something there and the file’s hash changes. BTW, that’s one sneaky way malware writers get malware onto a system – they hide it in the extended attributes. And! That changes the file’s hash, alerting you to the fact that it’s not original.
2. Not all file systems support extended attributes, and not all file transfer protocols support them either.
(a) If you copy a file to a FAT formatted flash-drive or SD card, all the extended attributes are lost.
(b) Writing a file to a Windows (SMB) share, (which is what many inexpensive network file storage devices use), may or may not keep the extended attributes – most likely not.
(c) File transfer protocols like wget (HTTP), ftp, sftp, rsync, (etc) are not guaranteed to handle extended attributes correctly.
3. Even if the file system you’re copying to supports extended attributes, if they’re not supported in the same way, no banana. A prime example is a file copied between a Windows and a Mac file system. They both implement file streams (extended attributes), but implement them differently and are therefore incompatible. The same is true for ext-2, 3, and 4 on Linux systems.
ReplyIf you are comfortable with the command prompt, you can use my free utility, CrcCheckCopy.
It compares large sets of files and creates a CRCstamps.txt file where you can see the crc of every file. The verification is done against the CRCstamps.txt.
For Windows and MacOS, you can see it here: starmessagesoftware.com/crccheckcopy
all the files listed here get flagged by Norton as a dangerous file, hummmmm
ReplyIf Norton is really flagging all the files listed here then it is truly messed up. I tested at least half in VirusTotal and they came up completely clean. In my ESET AV and Malwarebytes as well.
ReplyI have looked for an answer to this on several tech help sites.
Every one of these sites fail in the same way.
How do you automate the testing of the new hash against the developer’s official hash?
These things can be quite long, making it easy to make mistakes.
Some of the tools here have a verify option where you can paste in the official hash and see if it matches the hash from the file.
Isn’t that exactly what you are looking for??
ReplyJames And HAL9000
When manually checking only matching a few digits is enough ….
Bcuz as far as i know A checksum is a extremely unique Sequence of characters …
Even if the two files differ by just a few bytes of data they will have entirely different checksums …
P.S. this is from my personal experience.
It’s not so likely but entirely possible to have two vastly different files and the first few characters of the checksum match, so that simply isn’t enough if you want to be totally sure the file is a 100% copy.
ReplyHAshGenerator website downloaded file, gets flagged by Norton as a dangeorus file and quarantined. Just FYI
Replyis that possible to know a application name using Hash value (MD5)
ReplyHow can ı found original hash values of windows 10?
ReplyAlso note that 7-Zip has hash checking built-in.
7-zip.org
Hashcheck reworked: github.com/gurnec/HashCheck/releases/
Windows 7 Genuine Check Tools
ReplyThere is a new Universal tool called Amazing Hash Utility built for Windows 10, available in the store for free
ReplyVery useful info about hash value, thanks!
Replyhello
thanks alot
Still a great post after a few years. Thanks for making and creating it. Cheers~
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Sam Smith
I found this article very useful, Thanks!
ReplyThanks for mentioning ExactFile. Their console utility does a decent job when you need to process files within a large folders tree. Unfortunately it misses few advanced features such as including/excluding files by wildcards and it stores checksum of the whole tree into one file.
ReplyWindows 7 Genuine Test
Similar to HashTab by ImplBits is the program by Kai Liu named HashCheck. It, too, installs as a shell extension for Windows Explorer, and works on both x86 as well as x64. See code.kliu.org/hashcheck/
Even though it has not been updated in a very long time (over 6 years!) it works well in XP through 10. Although it shows only CRC-32, MD4/5, and SHA-1, it also has the ability to *save* the MD5 check file for future verification.
Another advantage over HashTab is that you can select multiple files and hash them all at once, and again, save the MD5 of all selected files together in a single file.
Reply+1 for HashCheck. Just grabbed it and it’s comprehensive and super-lightweight. Ability to handle multiple files and shell integration are musts.
Replyhey , i have a question , i want to know if i am givan a md5 signture as this :
e9bf1dd6bfe8ec57f6a41b3cab428b28
can i know if the file is melicios just by looking at the md5 signture ?
if not , what is the best way to figure it out?
You can’t tell just by looking at the signature, the only way to find out is to identify what the file is that matches that MD5, and then check if the file is malicious.
For example, Googling your MD5 tells me that the file is gcBar.dll and it’s classed as “Adware” by some antivirus.
If a search engine can’t tell you, then you can try to decrypt the MD5, here is an article on the subject:
raymond.cc/blog/ask-raymond-how-to-decrypt-md5-hashed-strings/
For SHA256 you certainly can by getting the hash and entering it on the VirusTotal website. The file, if it has already been scanned will show the detection rate for a large amount of different Malware detection softwares. You can have it re-scan the software if it has not been checked recently. This saves you having to upload the software to check it.
For me this tests software with just about all Malware scanners for a very comprehensive analysis. However some Malware can work around AntiVirus software, particularly when it is run in Sandboxes or Virtual Machines which these AV applications use. A Malware free analysis does not always mean that it is Malware free! This has been known for many years by Malware creators.
ReplyI totally agree with taco, HashCheck is the best file integrity verifier you can get, despite it hasn’t been updated since 2009. Highly recommended.
ReplyJust spent an hour trying to download latest version (5.0) of Download Hash Verifier. There are way, way, too many links labelled “Download” or something similar to determine the actual, magic link that will download the software. After the third return to the same Web page I finally gave up. I have the 4.5 version which seems to work fine. Or I may try one of the other alternatives listed here.
ReplyIf you are talking about the the SecurityXploded tool, I would agree it has quite a few download buttons to go through, although I managed to get the file downloaded in under 30 seconds.
On the final page it will say “Here is your direct download link”, click on download link and the file will come down.
ReplyGreat tool HashCheck. Thank you taco!
ReplyWindows 7 Genuine Check Tool Set
The best one is not on the list: HashCheck
Check it out here: code.kliu.org/hashcheck/
It’s the easiest to use and very fast and the best is that it seamlessly integrates into the windows explorer.
ReplyThanks for this man. Great resource. cheers
ReplyMD5 & SHA-1 Checksum Utility for me. Lite and easy to use!
ReplyThis is a great post, but you missed the huge one. Microsoft’s File Checksum Identify Verifier. I ran across it while looking for a command line tool to quickly check some hashes and once I installed it to my Windows directory (to put it in the PATH), I can use it from anywhere on the system. It “only” does SHA1 and MD5, but that’s plenty for my uses.
ReplyMicrosoft Genuine Check Windows 7
IgorWare Hasher is brilliant! Thanks Ray
ReplyWindows 7 Genuine Download
Excelent post, Hal 9000.
It’s a tutorial on how to use Hashes to check file integrity.
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