Microsoft Genuine Advantage Uninstall

How to disable or uninstall the pilot version of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications

This Microsoft update does not have an easy uninstall. Removal will require modifying the registry.


Important This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure to back up the registry before you modify it. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
256986 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986/) Description of the Microsoft Windows registry

SUMMARY
This article applies to the version of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications that is distributed during the pilot program. For example, this version is included in the pre-release version that accompanies the Microsoft Software License Terms. To safely and easily uninstall the pilot version, you must install the general release version of WGA Notifications. If you do not install this version, you can follow the steps in this article to disable or uninstall the pilot version.

Oracle Import Through Uncompressing Pipe

If there is not enough disk space to uncompress the dmp file, import can read from a pipe. This is similar to export into a compressing pipe.

Put this into a sh script file, and set your environment with the appropriate Oracle variables.

# The COMPRESSED dump file name.
DMPFILE=/u01/data/exportfile.dmp.Z

DT=`date +%Y%m%d%H`
PIPENAME=/tmp/pipe.$$

$(mknod $PIPENAME p)
/usr/bin/uncompress < $DMPFILE > $PIPENAME &

imp userid=user/pass file=$PIPENAME log=/tmp/imp_$DT.log fromuser=fromschemaowner touser=toschemaowner

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