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Disable Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage
posted on August 24th 2010, at 09:55
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lunarg
Ran across a problem today where a legit Office 2003 got flagged as being not legitimate, displaying a nag screen each time an Office application got started. The Office Genuine Advantage update (short: OGA) is an update installed with Microsoft Update, similar to the Windows Genuine Advantage update (short: OWA). While Microsoft flags the update as not uninstallable, there are ways to get rid of the update anyway.
Uninstalling the update is your best bet, and can be done from a (elevated) command prompt.
Be sure all Office applications are closed.
Open a Command prompt (cmd.exe).
Type in: msiexec /X {B2544A03-10D0-4E5E-BA69-0362FFC20D18}
This will invoke Windows Installer w
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