Remove Windows Genuine Notification

I recently again came up with the situation that Windows Genuine Notification popped up because Windows Update again installed it via Automatic Updates. It pops up while a user logs in to windows, displays a message near the system tray and keeps on reminding you in between work that the copy of windows is not genuine. It has been reported since its first release that even genuine users are getting this prompt, so Microsoft has them self release instructions for its removal. When I searched on Google about this issue, I landed up on pages which were providing many methods of its removal including those patching up existing files with their cracked versions which I would highly recommend avoiding them as they might contain malicious code and can be used to get you into more trouble. I found out this method of removal of Windows Genuine Notification :

1. Launch Windows Task Manager.
2. End wgatray.exe process in Task Manager.
3. Restart Windows XP in Safe Mode.
4. Delete WgaTray.exe from C:\Windows\System32.
5. Delete WgaTray.exe from C:\Windows\System32\dllcache.
6. Launch RegEdit.
7. Browse to the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
8. Delete the folder WgaLogon and all its contents
9. Reboot Windows XP.

But the latest version of the WGN tool is a little tricky to handle. It will pop up again as soon as you end it from the task manager and while it is running in the memory, you can’t delete it too.
Here is how I did it :

• Ignore Step #2 of ending wgatray.exe before restarting to Safe Mode as it serves no purpose.
• At Step #4, wait on the deletion confirmation dialog box and then open task manager to end wgatray.exe
• When you are again prompted for a confirmation for terminating the process, align that confirmation box over the delete confirmation box.
• Press Yes on the Task Manager prompt and then quickly press Yes on the deletion confirmation. (You need to repeat this if you miss it)
• If you did it quickly then you will be able to delete the file.
• Step #5 can be missed. I was able to do it without the Step #5.
• Complete Step 6 to 9 as instructed.

After you have followed all the above instructions, then

• Go to Control Panel > Security Center > Automatic Update Settings.
• Select the third option “Notify me but don’t automatically download or install them“.
• Click Ok.
• Now when Windows Updates icon will appear in the system tray (it will take some time), click on the icon and it will display a list of available updates.
• This time unselect the checkbox of Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool, and click on Download.
  
• Select “Don’t notify my about these updates again” so it will ignored every time updates are downloaded.
• From the next time, make sure to check the list of download so that you might not install any new version of this tool.

Game Ft. Lil Wayne – Red Nation

[Game - Verse 1]
Throw your muthaf-cking Cincinnati hats in the sky
N-gga don’t ask why
Red laces in and out of them Air Max ’95′s
I, walk on the moon, flow hotter than June
Any n-gga want drama I kick up a sand dune
Peace to my man ‘Tune for giving his man room
Now we hittin’ switches to the Spring Break, Cancun
Get it, nah forget it, SuWoo I live it
Made the letter B more famous than a Red Sox fitted
But that was suicide, I don’t live in Judah’s eyes
Half of these rappers weren’t trappin’ when I was choppin’ the do or die
Suge had me in, I went Puffy like Zab Judah eye
Dre called, told my baby momma “won’t you decide”
She chose Doc, first day I poured ? like its Aftermath for life
And all I do is ride
Before I turn on ‘em I kill Satan and stick my red flag in the ground
It’s Red Nation!!!


[Lil Wayne]
Now Blood the f-ck up
Everyday’s a gamble muthaf-cker, tough luck
And we gon f-ck the World til that bitch bust nuts
I can’t tell ya whats good, but I can tell ya whats, what
And that’s, B’s up, hoes down
Lookin’ in the mirror, I’m no where to be found
Blood, I’m a dog, call me a blood hound
Throwin’ blood in the air, leave blood on the ground

[Game - Verse 2]
N-ggas’ll trade they soul to be Drake or J. Cole
Live and die for this shit, word to Tupac Shakur’s halo
One blood, plural, n-gga I’m spendin’ Euro’s
Ferrari got an ice cream paint job, Dorrough
I’m up out the hood, where they pull guns on you like
Come up out ya hood, it aint never all good
We roll up in backwoods, n-gga get to actin’ stupid
Get thrown in the back woods
Los Angeles, home of the scandalous
Pimp, hoes and gamblers
98 degree’s on Christmas
N-gga we rollin’ cannibus
Swisha sweet aint it, I told her I’m Charles Louboutin
The bitch fainted, pulled her panites down, stain it
That’s my Chi-lingo, yeah I’m bi-lingual
Ball by myself, Ochocinco
Dancing with the stars, bullets and fast cars
And everybody bleed out here, word to God


[Lil Wayne]
Now Blood the f-ck up
Everyday’s a gamble muthaf-cker, tough luck
And we gon f-ck the World til the bitch bust nuts
I can’t tell ya whats good, but I can tell ya whats, what
And that’s, B’s up, hoes down
Lookin’ in the mirror, I know where to be found
Blood, I’m a dog, call me a blood hound
Throwin’ blood in the air, leave blood on the ground

[Game - Verse 3]
Russia got a Red Flag
US got Red Stripes
Last train to Paris, round the World in these red Nikes
Che Guevara of the New Era, test me
Louieville slugger, you’ll get buried in my era
Got that natty on, tighter than a magnum
Walk in the club saggin’ with a 38 magnum
Red Ralph Laurens, the double R sittin’ on a hill like Lauren
Her and the car foreign
Got my red Dre Beats on, tryna put my peeps on
And I keep it hood like this Phantom is a Nissan
Where my n-gga Jim Jones at?
Roll up the weed son, so many bloods in Compton had to get a NYC song
And while I’m out here, I might as well go shopping
And put this new bad b-tch I got her some red bottoms
And all these hatin’ ass n-ggas want me dead
Cause I’m Malcolm X before he turned Muslim, RED


[Lil Wayne]
Now Blood the f-ck up
Everyday’s a gamble muthaf-cker, tough luck
And we gon f-ck the World til the bitch bust nuts
I can’t tell ya whats good, but I can tell ya whats, what
And that’s, B’s up, hoes down
Lookin’ in the mirror, I know where to be found
Blood, I’m a dog, call me a blood hound
Throwin’ blood in the air, leave blood on the ground

MY FRIDAY STORY WITH FAITH AND VISION

The Catalina Island is twenty-one miles away from the coast of California, and many people have taken the challenge to swim across it. On July 4th 1952, Florence Chadwick stepped into the water off Catalina Island to swim across to the California coast. She started well and on course, but later fatigue set in, and the weather became cold. She persisted, but fifteen hours later, numb and cold, she asked to be taken out of the water.

After she recovered, she was told that she had been pulled out only half a mile away from the coast. She commented that she could have made it, if the fog had not affected her vision and she would have just seen the land. She promised that this would be the only time that she would ever quit.

She went back to her rigorous training. And two months later she swam that same channel. The same thing happened. The fatigue set in, and the fog obscured herview, but this time she swam with faith and vision of the land in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind the fog was land. She succeeded and became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel. She even broke the
men's record by two hours.

Nokia leads way in offering health information through mobile applications

…Maisha App on Ovi Store set to help millions of nurturing mothers with crucial health information    

Nairobi, Kenya, July: The mobile phone has been around for just over a decade and is bringing positive and dramatic developments sub-Saharan Africa. And now, mobile applications, embedded and easily accessible on many handsets will fuel economic growth in the region.  

Much is happening in money transfer and market-information exchange through mobile phones, resulting to significant macro-economic gains, not least in middle and small-scale businesses found in Kenya. Since its launch four years ago, for example, MPESA, hugely successful money-transfer service by Safaricom has helped transfer about Kshs 908 billion (US$ 9.98 billion) in cumulative transactions up to March 2011 with 13 million subscribers actively using it.

However, it is in the area of health that the mobile phone may bring about far-reaching benefits given the extent of mortality in the region. Mobile health (mHealth) applications are expected to increase tremendously as demand rises. Pyramid, a researcher, said in a recent report the current number of applications (about 200 million) could triple by next year.

Health applications are critical as one tool to tackle child mortality in Kenya and other developing countries. According to data from World Health Organization (WHO) almost 9 million children still die each year before they reach their fifth birthday. The highest rates of child mortality continue to be found in sub-Saharan Africa where 2008 one in seven children died before their fifth birthday. The causes of child deaths in developing countries are related to malnutrition and lack of access to adequate primary healthcare and infrastructure but mobile applications can help reduce the incidence of these deaths, according to heath experts.

The Pyramid survey found that about 70 percent of people worldwide are interested in having access to at least one m-Health application, and they’re willing to pay for it. The demand is expected to rise especially because new innovations in the mobile healthcare market are expected to drive down costs soon while quickly expanding access and improving quality.

The study said technology and telecommunications providers are well positioned for developing, extending and marketing mHealth applications as many of these players already have established relationships with healthcare providers and payers, and many benefit from large, global scale.

And now Nokia, the world’s largest handsets maker is taking the lead in provision of mHealth apps such as Maisha which is free on its Ovi Store. Agatha Gikunda, the Nokia’s Head of Solutions Sales in East and Southern Africa says developing health apps is scalable in Kenya because they can run on affordable phones and data is relatively cheaper in Kenya compared to other emerging markets.

“Going to market with the Ministry of Health and other private sector organizations will lend credibility and scalability to use of applications such as Maisha. Nokia currently has more than half the market share of mobile devices with approximately 35 percent of them being GPRS enabled.”

Maisha App targets first-time and expectant mothers in rural areas that have difficulty in accessing information crucial not only to their health but also that of their babies. Once downloaded, the app offers, among other things, a wide range of info spanning nutrition tips, immunization reminders and symptoms of diseases and even where to find hospitals in a given locality.

More importantly, the app offers an audio option in two local languages, Luo and Kikuyu, in addition to English and Kiswahili for those who are illiterate.  

“The app has an audio book system because most rural women in Africa may not be literate enough to read. The audio recordings can be made in a variety of local languages, making the application scalable across markets not only in Africa, but across the world. As MAPs/Navigation technology has now moved to S40 software, we will target to incorporate some location based features that utilise Ovi Maps,” says Ms Gikunda.

Nokia’s action represents a trend being adopted not only by other players but also by governments worldwide. According to the WHO, mHealth is being applied in maternal and child health, and programmes reducing the burden of the diseases linked with poverty, some of the common characteristics in sub-Saharan Africa.

As Ms Gikunda says, Maisha app may have about 900 applications downloads from the Ovi Store so far, since its launch in last March, but its presence on Ovi Store may help bring about unprecedented socio-economic changes and save millions of children in Kenya and Africa at large.

…Ends…

About Nokia

At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device – from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and solutions for communications networks globally.

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Six Steps to Letting Go of Your Past

1. Write, talk, draw, paint, or otherwise tap into your thoughts and memories. Letting go of your past means honoring your memories.
2. Let go of the emotions and feelings of painful memories by letting them wash over you – you'll feel horrible during, but relieved and peaceful afterwards. Let go of your past by reliving it.
3. Go back and talk to the people involved, if possible. Letting go of your past can mean going back.
4. Share your real feelings; confess if it's appropriate. Letting go of your past means expressing your emotions. If you have to deal with your mistakes, then own up to your shame or guilt.
5. Apologize and ask forgiveness if you need to. Letting go of your past means being vulnerable.
6. Get help with uncontrollable urges to overeat, get stoned or drunk, or otherwise hurt yourself. Letting go of your past means burying your pride.