Sunday, December 10, 2006
Bypass Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) for Windows Media Player (WMP) 11
As with my previous posts on bypassing Windows Genuine Advantage, this post is meant for people with legitimate copies of Windows who somehow can't get Microsoft to recognize that they are running a genuine copy.
To install Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 without going through WGA, you can either use a registry hack or overwrite a .dll in the setup package. I'll describe the .dll method since it should be safer.
1.First, you'll want to download WMP 11.
2.Next, extract the WMP 11 setup file using something like WinRAR. Either right-click the setup file once you've installed WinRAR and choose Extract, or select it from WinRAR's user interface.
3. Download LegitLibM.dll.rar. Extract it and rename the file to LegitLibM.dll.
4. Copy and paste LegitLibM.dll into the extracted WMP 11 directory, overwriting the existing file.
5. Run setup_wm.exe and accept when the setup asks for WGA validation. It should go directly to the EULA from there.
[via Honeytech]
To install Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 without going through WGA, you can either use a registry hack or overwrite a .dll in the setup package. I'll describe the .dll method since it should be safer.
1.First, you'll want to download WMP 11.
2.Next, extract the WMP 11 setup file using something like WinRAR. Either right-click the setup file once you've installed WinRAR and choose Extract, or select it from WinRAR's user interface.
3. Download LegitLibM.dll.rar. Extract it and rename the file to LegitLibM.dll.
4. Copy and paste LegitLibM.dll into the extracted WMP 11 directory, overwriting the existing file.
5. Run setup_wm.exe and accept when the setup asks for WGA validation. It should go directly to the EULA from there.
[via Honeytech]
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