How to avoid Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool (KB949810

[ykä]

I bought a new laptop, which had a preinstalled trial copy of MS-Office. I
uninstalled it, since I use OpenOffice. Now Windows update program every day
suggest me to install Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool (KB949810).
This is frustrating, since I don't have any kind of MS-office.
How can I avoid this? I don't want to install unnecessary programs into my
new computer. Is it possible for Microsoft to somehow check the existence of
any MS-office program (legal or illegal) before offering these kind of
updates? I red in the net that it is not possible to uninstall this OGA after
its installation.

So what should I do? Do I have to choose between:
1) installing a program I don't want
2) every day uncheck the checkbox in Windows Update to not install it
3) Not to use Windows Update?

All of these are something I don't want to do.

 

[DL]

Did you also uninstall the Activation Assistant?
Run MS Update manually, modify the settings to ignore this update

"ykä" <ykä@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6A8F5BEA-76D1-46F9-AD07-F10AEB1ABDEE@microsoft.com...
> I bought a new laptop, which had a preinstalled trial copy of MS-Office. I
> uninstalled it, since I use OpenOffice. Now Windows update program every
> day
> suggest me to install Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool
> (KB949810).
> This is frustrating, since I don't have any kind of MS-office.
> How can I avoid this? I don't want to install unnecessary programs into my
> new computer. Is it possible for Microsoft to somehow check the existence
> of
> any MS-office program (legal or illegal) before offering these kind of
> updates? I red in the net that it is not possible to uninstall this OGA
> after
> its installation.
>
> So what should I do? Do I have to choose between:
> 1) installing a program I don't want
> 2) every day uncheck the checkbox in Windows Update to not install it
> 3) Not to use Windows Update?
>
> All of these are something I don't want to do.

 

[ykä]

Re: How to avoid Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool (KB94

Thanks for quick response!

How can I check, if I have uninstalled Activation Assistant? At least I
couldn't find it at Control Panel's "Programs and Functions" (I'm not sure
about the name "Programs and functions" since I have a Finnish version of W7).

Could you please explain in more details "modify the settings to ignore this
update"? I couldn't find any option to permanently deny the installation of
this update. I don't want to uncheck the checkbox every day.

best regards, ykä

"DL" wrote:

> Did you also uninstall the Activation Assistant?
> Run MS Update manually, modify the settings to ignore this update
>
> "ykä" <ykä@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6A8F5BEA-76D1-46F9-AD07-F10AEB1ABDEE@microsoft.com...
> > I bought a new laptop, which had a preinstalled trial copy of MS-Office. I
> > uninstalled it, since I use OpenOffice. Now Windows update program every
> > day
> > suggest me to install Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool
> > (KB949810).
> > This is frustrating, since I don't have any kind of MS-office.
> > How can I avoid this? I don't want to install unnecessary programs into my
> > new computer. Is it possible for Microsoft to somehow check the existence
> > of
> > any MS-office program (legal or illegal) before offering these kind of
> > updates? I red in the net that it is not possible to uninstall this OGA
> > after
> > its installation.
> >
> > So what should I do? Do I have to choose between:
> > 1) installing a program I don't want
> > 2) every day uncheck the checkbox in Windows Update to not install it
> > 3) Not to use Windows Update?
> >
> > All of these are something I don't want to do.
>
> .
>

 

[ykä]

Re: How to avoid Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool (KB94

Hi,

The situation is now even worse. Today I got two updates for MS-Office:
KB949810 and KB981715 (7,4 M. Is there any way to permanently prevent these
updates?

ykä

"DL" wrote:

> Did you also uninstall the Activation Assistant?
> Run MS Update manually, modify the settings to ignore this update
>
> "ykä" <ykä@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6A8F5BEA-76D1-46F9-AD07-F10AEB1ABDEE@microsoft.com...
> > I bought a new laptop, which had a preinstalled trial copy of MS-Office. I
> > uninstalled it, since I use OpenOffice. Now Windows update program every
> > day
> > suggest me to install Office Genuine Advantage Notification -tool
> > (KB949810).
> > This is frustrating, since I don't have any kind of MS-office.
> > How can I avoid this? I don't want to install unnecessary programs into my
> > new computer. Is it possible for Microsoft to somehow check the existence
> > of
> > any MS-office program (legal or illegal) before offering these kind of
> > updates? I red in the net that it is not possible to uninstall this OGA
> > after
> > its installation.
> >
> > So what should I do? Do I have to choose between:
> > 1) installing a program I don't want
> > 2) every day uncheck the checkbox in Windows Update to not install it
> > 3) Not to use Windows Update?
> >
> > All of these are something I don't want to do.
>
> .
>