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Turning on Automatic Updates in Windows may cause the validation to run in your system.
If your system is found as Pirated by the Microsoft, messages are displayed from the startup itself. 

And we must wait for the dialog "Resolve Later".
You can remove that messages and system tray icon by following method. 

For this you need a software, File Replacer. A simple program to replace system files.

Download FileReplacer.zip

After downloading FileReplacer.zip file,extract it to get the software.
Now follow the steps below:

1. Anywhere in your drives, create a text file (.txt)
2. Rename it to wgatray.exe
3. Now open the downloaded program Replacer.cmd
4. Open the system drive (mostly C:\) and click on search button, and search for the file wgatray.exe
5. From the search results shown, drag the wgatray.exe file and drop it in the Replacer.cmd window and press Enter.
6. Now drag and drop the initially created wgatray.exe to the same window, press Enter.
7. Confirm the file replacement.
The first part is completed and the replacer program quits.

8. Now create a wgalogon.dll as described in steps 1 and 2.
9. Replace the original file x:\windows\system32\wgalogon.dll with this junk file as described in steps 3 to 7. ( 'x' is the system drive)

10. Open Registry Editor (Disabled?)(No Run in Start menu?)
11. Press Home button keyboard.
12. Press Ctrl+F to open the Find dialog box.
13. Type in wgatray.exe and click on Find Next.
14. Delete the key that has the values
wgatray.exe 
[Make sure you backup every keys before doing any deletion]


Repeat steps 13 and 14 till no search results are found.

15. Repeat the steps 11 to 14, to find and delete regisrtry entries containing "wgalogon.dll"

This should help you to solve it.

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