UNINSTALL Windows 7 Activation Update: KB971033 and REACTIVATE

For those of you who installed the Windows 7 Activation Checker update (KB971033) you can still uninstall it. The reason that viewers such as you may want to uninstall it, is because of the surround rumors that this update creates a new process/service that will slow down your system and has been rumored to monitor the user. If you haven’t installed this, you can go to Windows To Hide the Windows Update/Disable it From Ever Installing: 1. Go to Windows Update 2. Click to View Your Optional Updates 3. Right Click the one Labeled “Update for Windows 7″ with update ID “KB971033″ 4. Click “hide update.”

Uninstall KB971033 Windows 7 Activation Checker

For those of you who HAVE installed it and want to uninstall it 1. Go to Windows Update 2. Hit Installed Updates (link at the bottom left corner). If that link isn’t there, hit “view update history” and hit the “installed updates” link at the top. 3. Scroll down to the section titled “Microsoft Windows” and look for update KB971033. 4. Right click it and hit “uninstall”. Hit okay. 5. Reboot 6. Now check for updates again and follow the above method to hide it from installing ever again! Note: You can also do a system restore if you are worried. I have verified this method myself and did it before publishing this article. I personally do not want any extra processes running on my computer. =) Enjoy! If you are flagged as having an Un-Genuine copy of Windows 7: Method One of Removing Genuine Activation Message 1. Copy down these instructions into notepad and save it to your desktop. 2. Go to start -> hold shift and click run (If you do not see run, simply type run in the start menu’s search box and click it while holding shift) Note: Holding shift while clicking run opens up run in administrative mode, which is necessary for this process. 3. Type in “command” or “cmd” and press enter. 4. In the command prompt window type or right click -> paste:

takeown /f “%windir%\System32\Wat\*”

5. Press enter 6. Type or right click -> paste:

icacls “%windir%\System32\Wat\*” /deny *S-1-1-0

7. Press enter and reboot. Reactivate Windows Method (easiest): If you need to re-activate your windows, it has been reported that Hazar’s and Daz’s activators work. Just type “Windows Activator Hazar Torrent” or “Windows Activator Daz Torrent” into Google. If you have changed your Windows Key and want to re-validate: 1. Go to start -> hold shift and click run (If you do not see run, simply type run in the start menu’s search box and click it while holding shift) Note: Holding shift while clicking run opens up run in administrative mode, which is necessary for this process. 2. Type in “command” or “cmd” and press enter. 3. Type the following or right click -> Paste:

%SystemRoot%\system32\Wat\WatAdminSvc.exe /run

4. Hit enter and reboot. Remove Windows Activation Notification Mode 1. Go to start -> hold shift and click run (If you do not see run, simply type run in the start menu’s search box and click it while holding shift) Note: Holding shift while clicking run opens up run in administrative mode, which is necessary for this process. 2. Type in “command” or “cmd” and press enter. 3. Type the following or right click -> Paste:

takeown /F %WINDIR%\System32\sppcomapi.dll && icacls %WINDIR%\System32\sppcomapi.dll /deny *S-1-1-0:F

4. Hit enter and reboot Note: You can re-enable this by typing:

icacls %WINDIR%\System32\sppcomapi.dll /grant *S-1-1-0:F

Remove the WatU scheduled key checker: 1. Go to start -> hold shift and click run (If you do not see run, simply type run in the start menu’s search box and click it while holding shift) Note: Holding shift while clicking run opens up run in administrative mode, which is necessary for this process. 2. Type in “command” or “cmd” and press enter. 3. Copy and right click-> paste the following into command prompt:

schtasks /change /disable /tn “\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Activation Technologies\ValidationTask” && schtasks /change /disable /tn “\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Activation Technologies\ValidationTaskDeadline”

Delete WAT Registry Entries Windows Activator logs all kinds of stuff about you… this is how to delete those logs. 1. Go to start -> hold shift and click run (If you do not see run, simply type run in the start menu’s search box and click it while holding shift) Note: Holding shift while clicking run opens up run in administrative mode, which is necessary for this process. 2. Type in “command” or “cmd” and press enter. 3.Right click -> paste the following into command prompt:

REG DELETE “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Activation Technologies” /f