This Copy of Windows is Not Genuine

[awemawson]

My office PC has been running Win7 for several years. Installed from a genuine Win7 installation CD. It is genuine and registered to me.

Today it is coming up saying it's not genuine. I will re-boot it when I can get to it but at the moment I'm accessing remotely (which I do every day - not a new facility)

. . .but what the heck !

[John Rudd]

Sounds like something is corrupt...( bit like the world.... )

Mebbe try a re-install, after backing up...

[awemawson]

I am highly suspicious as Microsoft is ceasing Win7 support. I recently changed from ' automatically load updates' to 'let me choose which to load' just in case they spiked it at the last moment, but I see that Microsoft Security Essentials isn't being controlled by that setting and has loaded a host of updates in the last couple of days.

 . . . mmm . . . conspiracy  theories   

[Lew_Merrick_PE]

. . . mmm . . . conspiracy  theories   

Hey, just because Bill Gates & Paul Allen got their start by pirating BASIC rom Dartmouth!!!

[AdeV]

Hey, just because Bill Gates & Paul Allen got their start by pirating BASIC rom Dartmouth!!!

Speaking of Dartmouth BASIC... I watched a rather good little documentary on it the other day on YouTube:

Well worth a watch if you're interested in the early days of computing, and why Dartmouth in particular became such a hub of early computing excellence.

Andrew - I don't think it's a general Win7 thing, my laptop is still running Win7 & so far (touch wood) hasn't done the "not genuine" thing...

[russ57]

 A quick Web search will find lots of references to this error, with various causes and solutions.
It's been around as a problem for a long while.



Russ

[kayzed1]

one of the CPU's that were in use in the old days' used to bring up that error as they aged but can not for the life of me remember..my mate ( late ) used to be a Microsoft guy, told me about it a few years ago..