I've come to the uneducated conclusion (I'm between novice and intermediate in computer knowledge) that there possibly is a registry error on my computer which I have no clue how to fix. I downloaded Windows Live Onecare Safety scanner, and it also put my computer through the validation process.
They are convinced that this problem doesn't exist. Re-entering the Product Key after they proved to themselves that I wasn't crazy. At various times over the past 2 weeks, I have spent over 5 hours on the phone with Microsoft support, letting them take control of my computer and doing the exact same things I did. Since I don't know what update caused the problem, I can't remove it. Within a month, all the updates caught up and the popups started again. Since that made a little sense to me, I did a system restore to a point before I started getting that error. While I purchased my copy at Wal-Mart, it is the real deal and I refuse to spend another $100 plus dollars! I talked to one of my tech people at work and they seemd to think that the problem is in one of the updates from Windows. The validation process was performed and I was told my copy was not genuine and that I should consider purchasing another copy of Windows. That link took me to Microsoft's validation sight. It worked fine for a while, thene I started getting the popup saying that the copy of Windows I was running might not be genuine and that I should validate it by clicking on the link provided in the message. I have the same problem with Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit. Is this true, and do you think doing this would fix my problem? (However, I don't know how to enter a new key.) I also have a MSDNAA key for Windows 7 32-bit, and I read somewhere that I can use it for a Windows 7 64-bit installation. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to convince it that it is, in fact, a genuine copy of Windows.
It doesn't ask me to call Microsoft, or to reactivate it, or to download some tool to validate it, or to do anything else, for that matter. My Windows 7 partition survived this, as I can boot into it and all my data is there, but maybe "something happened". The other possible issue may be that I recently shuffled partitions around on my hard drive using GParted, leading to Windows being unable to boot and the use of recovery tools to correct filesystem errors, edit the boot manager, repair the MBR, among other things. I read somewhere that I could use the same MSDNAA key for two installations, but maybe that was false. Now, when my laptop boots, I have a severely crippled version of Windows 7 that has the following message in the bottom right corner of the desktop: I installed it on my laptop and on my desktop, using the same key for both installations. I downloaded a copy of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit from MSDNAA and a key for it.
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