your copy of windows can expires? wtf?

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so last week my laptop startedd yelling at me about my copy of windows not being authentic.
how is that possible? did it fucking expire? i didnt know thats a thing.

anyway, i need you computer nerds' help to find a windows 7 pro product key that will work. and then once thats done, i was informed that i can free update to 10 via windows' website.

sound right? what are my other options? this thing keeps deleting my desktop backround, and just makes it blank black. and every half our or so, i get warning messages about it being "bad" :rolleyes:

ice cold busch latte for helps me figure this out.
 

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so last week my laptop startedd yelling at me about my copy of windows not being authentic.
how is that possible? did it fucking expire? i didnt know thats a thing.

anyway, i need you computer nerds' help to find a windows 7 pro product key that will work. and then once thats done, i was informed that i can free update to 10 via windows' website.

sound right? what are my other options? this thing keeps deleting my desktop backround, and just makes it blank black. and every half our or so, i get warning messages about it being "bad" :rolleyes:

ice cold busch latte for helps me figure this out.
is there a sticker on the laptop?
 

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It shouldn't expire. Did you get the laptop new or second hand? Might be a pirated version of windows

I used to install a fresh copy of an old version of windows 7 with an activation crack, then upgrade to windows 10 for free.
Got it from bill years ago. He got them from work and "rebuilt" them or whatever to sell to people privately.
 

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Even with a legit product key, I've seen this happen to Win 7, 8 and 10.
A hardware change can trigger this or sometimes an update. Using a Microsoft Volume License key can also do this.

You can usually go into the "System" section of Windows settings and just "reactivate" it, or click on the warning to get into the activation screen.
If that doesn't work, you'll need a new product key. If you're sure you have a legit copy of Windows, then call Microsoft to get them to give you a new one.
 

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Once activated with a normal product key, the key is activated for 'life' until the system hardware fingerprint changes too much. But you have to change quite a bit before it will deactivate.


Generally, you can just re-activate windows and it should be fine. Othertimes, you have to call MS and get a manual activation key.
 

daturbosix

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Yeah. He probably used a pirated key or activation crack. Did windows update just run? It was probably picked up by some security update.
I've had updates turned off for two years now. And I didn't know about the free 10 upgrade either..

I turned updates off because there were two that never would work. Just kept coming back failed to install. No idea what they were
 
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