There is nothing in this part of the file that can be considered unique to your disc or product key. Edit: Also, could you verify that your disc has "For distribution with a new PC only.
For product support, contact the manufacturer of the PC" printed in the hologram in the upper left quadrant. Also, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, I would like to take you up on your offer to post a hi-res pic of the disc and CoA. However, if you do, please block out the Product Key. This forum does not accept pic uploads, so you'll have to post the pic s on a server or free pic host and provide a link in your response.
I am also bringing your thread to the attention of Darin Smith, the MS moderator, who can research the genuineness and activation history if any of this particular product key and let us know of any important info that he uncovers about it.
As an FYI, Microsoft did have a free replacement program from for people who were inadvertent purchasers of hi-quality counterfeit Windows and Office discs, but that part of the WGA program was concluded last year.
And as for the disc, yes, in the top left there's "Licensed for distribution only with a new PC. I'm at the office at the moment without a suitable camera, but tonight or tomorrow I'll use my digital camera and post a link to some nice pin-ups. As for activation history, sure, I'd be curious to hear any info. This copy has was used once and only once around last summer for a fresh install to set up one of our in-house build machines the Dell and has sat on the bookcase in my office since.
If Darin ends up looking at IP logs, our office is located in Austin TX and is where the activation for our key originated. First, whatever the source key, I apparently have a CoA that says I have title to that copy. Now, are you saying that my CoA is fake? Please make unambiguously clear that is it your position that I hold a CoA that was fraudulently fabricated by a third party with the intent to deceive. If this is not your position, kindly explain what the precise legal meaning of the "Certificate of Authenticity" I hold in my hand is.
Second, the original asking price of the product is immaterial if the title was legally transferred to me via a vanilla property transaction.
Frankly, I'm disturbed at how many resources MS, you, and other moderators put into basically saying that I'm out of luck no matter what case I present. As I stated to Carey, Microsoft's leadership has to understand that it's going nowhere except into the sunset when they abandon customers who did their best to be honest. I realize you're just doing your job, that your hands are tied, and so on, but take a step back for a second and ask yourself if the common-sense conclusion of all of this is to deny issuing a new product key for WinXP, a discontinued software product that takes exactly zero cents to issue a new product key for.
And may I ask what your job title is Darin? So is it the case I have one more story to share with industry colleagues on how broken MS has become? Carey and I are volunteer "helpers. Darin Smith is an actual Microsoft employee. I'll leave it to Darin to discuss the details of his forum responsibilities, if he chooses to do so. Unfortunately, counterfeiters make their livings by learning to game the system.
What happened in your case is very similar to what is an active and ongoing scam with Windows 7 counterfeits. The counterfeiters take advantage of a Microsoft software distribution plan called the Microsoft Developer Network MSDN as a software developer yourself, you may very well be familiar with it.
Developers can pay for a subscription to MSDN at varying participation levels, and once enrolled, are permitted to download, install, and activate a wide variety of Microsoft products. Because these product keys are assumed to be moving to many different computers and configurations, they are permitted a much wider latitude by the Microsoft Activation servers as to how often they can be activated and on how many computers they can be activated on.
So activity on a given product key that would normally be flagged by the Activation servers a suspicous in the sense that a key was being activated on too many computers at the same time or within a given time frame is not deemed suspicious if the product key is an MSDN key. So that is the opening that the counterfeiters are using. They press very "good" looking counterfeit discs, package them with "good" looking counterfeit CoAs that have the MSDN product keys printed on them, and then mass produce them and dump them on the unsuspecting consumers thru third-partys selling on eBay, Amazon marketplace, and fly-by-nite websites.
Since the product key is a real product key issued by Microsoft, it activates and validates. Over the course of time the MS activation servers will detect that this abused MSDN product key, which the counterfeiters printed on fake CoAs, that should be activated tens of times over the course of a few months, is instead being activated many tens or hundreds of times within a shorter period, because they key was printed on many tens or hundreds of fake CoAs affixed to many tens or hundreds of fake packaged discs and sold to consumers who are now installing the fake product.
At some unpublished threshhold, as the servers see this same key being activated way too much, the servers will flag the key and MS staff will investigate, and if it turns out the key has been compromised by counterfeiters, they will block the key.
This is happening right now with Windows 7, just visit the Windows 7 section of this forum and look at the posts regarding MSDN keys. In your case, the physical evidence is the smoking gun. As the report showed, the license installed on your computer by the package you bought is "retail. The final bit of evidence is the part of the setupp. Package them up, and send them off to the consumer.
The product key is real, so they will install and activate. Once that particular key wears out its welcome, it gets flagged and understandably irate customers post here demanding an explanation Have a VERY close look at your disc.
Windows XP can still be installed and activated after end of support. Activations will still be required for retail installations of Windows XP after this date as well.
In retrospect, the key feature of Windows XP is the simplicity. While it encapsulated the beginnings of User Access Control, advanced Network drivers and Plug-and-Play configuration, it never made a show of these features. The relatively simple UI was easy to learn and internally consistent. So, what really happens if you do not activate your Win 10? Indeed, nothing awful happens.
Virtually no system functionality will be wrecked. While installing Windows without a license is not illegal, activating it thru other means without an officially purchased product key is illegal. I get a message "invalid.
Thank you. This is normal when the system has not been activated. Contact Microsoft Support and explain to them.
They will help you with the activation process. I just did a cover of my Toshiba Satellite AS laptop, and it displays a message saying that my version of Windows Vista is not genuine. He asks me a key that I don't have.
How can I solve this? You need a key at the bottom of the laptop. If this is not the case, how did the laptop? After you download the update to vista SP2, WGA notification began popping and says that windows vista is not genuine. For the benefits of others looking for answers, please mark as answer suggestion if it solves your problem.
Windows 7 is not genuine after canceling the process of upgrading Windows Without my consent, windows 10 has interrupted a program I watched and installed itself. He left no turn of my laptop. After installation and upgrade one came the message asking to accept or refuse.
I clicked on the decline. The TI reinstalled windows 7. However, at the bottom of the screen, a message appeared. Windows 7 Home premium comes with my computer. Now how can I get the real Windows 7. If you haven't tried the suggestions provided by Greg earlier, do so and explain the matter to the representative. Also, you can view the following thread below link and view suggestions issued by Andre Da Costa.
Windows 7 Build this copy of windows is not genuine. Hope this information is useful. Please feel free to answer in the case where you are facing in the future other problems with Windows. Hi I tried to download the new 10 free Windows on my desk where I was running windows 7 Home premium He said my device was compatible but the download did not complete and microsoft tells me my copy of windows 7 is not genuine How to activate Windows 7 manually activate by phone 1 click Start and in the search for box type: slui.
Download the media creation tool. Click with the right button on the MediaCreationTool. Note: How to check if you are downloaded or installed the update Windows 10 November. When you make significant changes to your computer for example updated operating system, you must always back up.
Reboot several times, and then try again. Disable the general USB peripherals for example - smart card reader. If you are using a SCSI drive, make sure you have the drivers available for your storage on a thumdrive device and it is connected.
During the installation of Windows 10, click on the advanced custom Option and use the command load driver to load the driver for the SCSI drive. Now, however, you are forced to download the tool as part of the Microsoft Update program, just to be able to download other updates. I tried the 'Change Settings' link to disable the use of Microsoft Update. So far, so good. Go back to Windows Update site and guess what? Still need to download WGA in order to download other updates.
Something is very, very wrong here. Things get more wrong once WGA registers a false positive when checking for counterfeit copies of Windows.
I have done verification several times and tried to follow the rules. I was verified last year when I loaded Microsoft Antispyware program. Last week I received a pop-up to indicate that a new release of Antispyware was available. I replied yes to upload the program, then it indicated that it would validate my system. I replied yes to that message.
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