windows 7 saying the copy is not genuine

[johns0]

Anyone get this message once in awhile?I get it maybe once every 3 months on average and it clears up after a few minutes.I did a Google search and looks like it a common problem that hasn't been resolved.

[Backpain]

No, never had that one. I use Windows 7 on my 2 laptops and on my desktop which is a home built unit. It's so hard to keep up with Microsoft's poor programing. It seems like they have some kind of update every week or so. I am so glad my cars are not made that way.

[mail2tom]

Total of 2 desktops and one laptop I've never had that problem. I've even had to reload Windows 7 Ultimate on one PC 3 times due to bad hard drives and never needed to call Microsoft on the phone to validate it.

[fritzi93]

I see it every now and then in my VM.

[jman98]

Anyone get this message once in awhile?I get it maybe once every 3 months on average and it clears up after a few minutes.I did a Google search and looks like it a common problem that hasn't been resolved.

I've been using Win 7 64 bit at work and home for over a year now and never seen this. Unfortunately my experience with Windows has been that when you find a "common problem that hasn't been resolved" that Microsoft really doesn't understand what is causing it The one consistent weird problem I've had at home with Win 7 is that sometimes Windows Explorer will freeze up and the PC has to have an on the spot reboot without shutting down to fix it. Windows can't be shutdown when this happens to do a proper reboot. I've seen a bunch of wildly different explanations for it which means that nobody really knows why it happens, which also means that it's not likely to be fixed.

[johns0]

The only time i had windows explorer freezing was bad ram.

[Nelson37]

What you are seeing is the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool in the process of screwing up. It is fairly common, as in 3 to 5 out of several hundred Pc's over 5 years or so, however long the stupid tool has been around.

[johns0]

Its not the validation tool screwing up,windows will sometime tell me i need to download it to validate windows activation.

[Nelson37]

If it says what is in the post title, that is WGA. What you just posted is something different. Does it have a sort of stylized plus sign logo, with multiple lines?

[johns0]

Its not a WGA message i posted,i looked on google and what other people said was it was an activation message saying this copy wasn't genuine,no logo,just a boxed message.

[ranchhand]

Occasionally I get that stupid message. I reboot and it's gone. Windows Ultra/64bit

[jagabo]

The one consistent weird problem I've had at home with Win 7 is that sometimes Windows Explorer will freeze up and the PC has to have an on the spot reboot without shutting down to fix it.

Probably a graphics driver bug.

[TBoneit]

Maybe I'm just lucky? Nope just cautious about what I load into the computer and where I go on the Internet.

I do not get freezes in Windows 7 and the times I had trouble in XP I traced it back to failing RAM. Replacing the failing piece of memory and back in business.

I have seen that message (windows 7 saying the copy is not genuine) for one reason only. I hadn't activated the windows yet and the 30 days had run out.
I'm guessing that those that do see that message are seeing it on a computer they built rather than a name brand that came OEM activated?

Good Luck
Roger

[dfisher052]

I had that. It was caused by a rootkit virus. Had to re-install operating system (Windows 7).