My Dell laptop, which came new with Genuine Windows 7 Professional (32 bit) pre-loaded just under 2 years ago, has suddenly - as of today - started displaying a message in the bottom RH corner of the screen saying "Windows 7 / Build 7601 / This copy of Windows is not genuine"
It's got the official MS sticker on the bottom to prove otherwise!
Anyone any idea what might have caused this, and what - if anything - I need to do about it?
TIA.
Have you altered the hardware at all?
Try the M$ Genuine Diagnostics Tool at:
Run Linux
HN
In message , Roger Mills writes
I had a similar message that Windows security essentials reported that windows might not be genuine and to go online to validate it
must be an update causing it
read about this some time ago, have a read thro the MS forums
No.
First off, it wouldn't let me save it to the desktop, saying that I didn't have write access! So I saved it on my data disk, and ran it - and not only did the message go away, but it now allows me to save to the desktop again.
God only knows why the problem arose in the first place.
There is obviously a group of morons using Newsgroups who are unable to give helpful guidance about Windows and are "triggered" by such questions to give the "use Linux" response.
Has using Linux programmed this behaviour?
Incidentally I have nothing against Linux, just a negative reaction to these evangelistic users.
km
Have you ever been where a group of Linux enthusiasts gather? If so, you'd know the answer. ;-)
One of the most oft-quoted things I ever said in a lecture was initially published within minutes of me saying it: "There are some very strange people in the Linux newsgroups".
And yes, I get fed up with this knee-jerk "Install Linux" reaction too.
It is a modern update of the archetypical yokel asked for directions - "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here".
Chris
Alternatively (and just as inane), "Google is your friend!"
Yeah, Windows users.
Indeed, not only that it just damages the reputation of using Linux on the desktop...
En el artículo , John Rumm escribió:
Bringing the subject somewhat back on topic, an OS is a tool, and one chooses the correct tool for the job. If Windows does what you want, use it. Same goes for Linux. Or DOS, for that matter.
Those who engage in OS advocacy wars should be restricted to an XT with
360k floppies running MS-DOS 2.11.
That's a bit luxurious. You cen get an XT up to 640k onboard.
How about a 5150 original PC with 180k floppies?
180K floppies? Luxury... we used to *dream* of floppies when I were a lad...
It used to be true when I was an OS/2 user - for some of us it was a very good OS, for other people a religion. Did you know that back in the mid
1990s at dead of night MS would send trucks to all the CompUSA warehouses to pick all the Windows 95 returns. You didn't? Just shows what a good job they did of keeping it secret!En el artículo , Tony Bryer escribió:
I remember a colleague showing us OS/2 running on his IBM PS/2 machine. He was very proud of the fact that it had a whole 4MB - yes, megabytes - of RAM while the rest of us plebs had to make do with 1MB.
IBM's big mistake with OS/2 was crippling it so it would run on a 286.
Well, for the first four years, until version 2.0.
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