Once activated, WGA is satisfied, and the notifications disappear forever. No malware, no BSODs, no legal risk.

This works even for many OEM keys.

The motivations were varied, but they generally fell into three categories:

For Windows 7, WGA manifested itself in several ways:

To a novice user, a successful WGA remover appears to work perfectly: the nag screens vanish, the black desktop goes away, and Windows Update seems functional again.