Windows Not Genuine! Oh yes it is!!!

danmanchester

Switched on my pc 10 minutes ago to be met by the "Windows has significantly changed since it was last activated..do you want to activate now...you have 3 days blah blah etc" pop up. No new hardware or anything else other than songs into the media library have been added so don't know what prompted this message.

I built this pc just over 4 weeks ago (26th May after just looking at my first batch of windows updates) and this is the 3rd time (!!!:mad: !!!) I've had this message..so if I activate again it will be the 4th time!

Anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks Dan.

wonderfullife_2

Hi
This happened to me the other week, I was surprised as well, as its never happened before, but I had done a restore of a backup, and I presumed it was this.
Anyway just did the activation again and alls fine, although it is a bit of a pain.

Hope this helps

PS Perhaps they think all Mancunians are using illegals................

lee634

This is a well know MS problem, happened after an recent update

danmanchester

wonderfullife wrote:

PS Perhaps they think all Mancunians are using illegals................

Hehe :rotfl: probably!

Mine's definitely genuine, it's just so weird - I think I only ever saw that "activate" message once before on my old xp pro pc that I ran for almost 4 years, yet this new pc and xp home it's the third time now in 4 weeks!

Just activated it again anyway - no problem - but still annoying nonetheless.

What I want to get to the bottom of is what's causing the false "not genuine" message? Or could it be just another Microsoft !!!!-up?:rolleyes:

danmanchester

lee634 wrote:

This is a well know MS problem, happened after an recent update

aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! So yet another patch will be on its way soon then I hope!

slowen

danmanchester wrote:

Switched on my pc 10 minutes ago to be met by the "Windows has significantly changed since it was last activated..do you want to activate now...you have 3 days blah blah etc" pop up. No new hardware or anything else other than songs into the media library have been added so don't know what prompted this message.

I built this pc just over 4 weeks ago (26th May after just looking at my first batch of windows updates) and this is the 3rd time (!!!:mad: !!!) I've had this message..so if I activate again it will be the 4th time!

Anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks Dan.

http://www.floodle.net/extra/ebayinfo/windows_genuine_advantage.html

danmanchester

This is now officially "doing my head in" !!!

Just switched on pc again and.... again!!!

Looks like I'll have to follow Slowens link (cheers slowen) to manually deactivate that WGA thing until M$ sort this mess out grrrrrrrr:mad: !!!

Quincy_3

danmanchester wrote:

This is now officially "doing my head in" !!!

Just switched on pc again and.... again!!!

Looks like I'll have to follow Slowens link (cheers slowen) to manually deactivate that WGA thing until M$ sort this mess out grrrrrrrr:mad: !!!

If Genuine go back to PC vendor, If no PC vendor phone MS they are extremely helpful.

danmanchester

Oh it's a genuine disc, only a month old but this will be the 4 or 5th time it's asked for reactivation now.

I tried ringing Micrsoft earlier but was on hold 15 minutes - I'll give them a call and see what they say, I don't want to have to be re activating the damn thing every week! (Or like today-TWICE in one day!).

danmanchester

Am going to activate over the phone this time so I can speak to a customer service rep.....

Quincy_3

danmanchester wrote:

Am going to activate over the phone this time so I can speak to a customer service rep.....

Yep deffo that, and ask them for there support email addy as Ive lost it they may however give you a load of gumph for that addy, like we cant give it out as it will put Mars in a bad orbit or summet. :rolleyes: