This is really weird. I installed  7 Home Edition and some months ago
Microsoft offered an update to 7 Ultimate. I bought it and downloaded it and
it worked fine until some weeks ago Now  Microsoft does not recognize their
own product.

You are right, Blair, only way seems to dump all data to external and reload
from CD.

If I buy a electric razor....and it does not work....I get a new one because
I have guarantee
If I buy a house .......and it rains through the roof .....I get a new house
or repair because I have a guarantee
If I buy a supertanker....and it does not start.....I get it fixed because I
have a guarantee
If I buy from Microsoft....and it does not work....I have to fix everything
myself... and no compensation at all from Microsoft Robbery Inc

Inge

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From: "Blair Hogg" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: den 25 August 2010 21:48
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC: windows 7

> Inge,
>
> Could it be that something got corrupted in Win7 that it no longer thinks
> it is
> genuine?
>
> Could you try reinstalling Win7 with the original validation to see if it
> gets
> fixed? It may be a pain but it might be the only way to fix it.
>
> Have you changed any hardware in the PC lately? It may use serial numbers
> or
> MAC addresses to identify the PC. This may change the validation key.
>
> It could also be a problem on the Microsoft validation server. I read on
> Wikipedia that there have been issues with the server causing some
> computers to lose their validation.
>
> Blair
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:35:29 +0200, Inge <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I use 7 on one of my computers.  Bought a professional kit in a
>>professional
>>shop, installed it and got it validated.  Have been using the O/S for half
>>a
>>year when suddenly I got the message 'your Windows 7 copy is not genuin'
> and
>>another message from Microsoft 'do yoú want to check if your copy is
>>genuin
>>depress ....etc' .  And I downloaded a Windows program that only said '
>>your
>>copy is not genuin, take the opportunity to buy genuin Windows 7 for only
>>xxxx $ '.   I can't get rid of these stupid harassing messages, they pop
>>up
>>whatever I  do. And there is no way to contact Microsoft directly as you
>>know, only lots of annoying computerized hints and FAQ.  Has anyone got
> into
>>this mess too?
>>/Inge
>>
>
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