- Sep 2, 2013
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I had an Asus G73-JH laptop with Windows 7, bought from Best Buy a few years back. I purchased all the fancy protection packages (call it naïvette) to hopefully future-proof the expensive gaming laptop.
A few years down the road (now a year ago), the laptop kept experiencing random BSOD's and freezings. Long story short, after having the laptop sent in way too many times than their "No Lemon Policy" allowed, I finally was setup with a credit towards the purchase of a new laptop. After purchasing the equivalent of what I had before (a G75-VW), I went on my happy way. The new laptop came pre-installed with a copy of Windows 8, which I did my best to give a try. I couldn't stand it, so I popped in my old hard drive, deleted the old drivers (went from an ATI radeon to an NVIDIA GTX gpu), and everything seemed to be running perfectly.
Now comes the Windows Activation Technologies popup! YAY!
I 100% understand that my copy of Windows 7 was OEM and therefore 'locked-in' to the previous laptop's motherboard, and this current laptop's motherboard is too dissimilar to be passable for the WAT settings.
My question is not how to 'hack' or 'crack' my copy of Windows. My question is, without reformatting my computer and doing a re-install, is there any way to either contact Asus or Microsoft and ask for help in stopping this popup? Is this popup anything more than a warning? (I do have the watermark on my desktop saying it is no longer a Genuine copy). If I keep clicking 'cancel' when it asks me to solve the issue, will it eventually give me limited access to windows or some such thing (like the trials of Microsoft Office do after they expire?).
I've never had a 'fake' version of Windows or anything, so I'm a little on-edge about this whole situation. As far as I'm concerned, I'm running a 100% genuine copy of windows because I purchased it within a lemon computer, and the time that it took for them to get me a new one was too great, so the computer became out-of-date and I had to purchase a newer version.
Thanks~
A few years down the road (now a year ago), the laptop kept experiencing random BSOD's and freezings. Long story short, after having the laptop sent in way too many times than their "No Lemon Policy" allowed, I finally was setup with a credit towards the purchase of a new laptop. After purchasing the equivalent of what I had before (a G75-VW), I went on my happy way. The new laptop came pre-installed with a copy of Windows 8, which I did my best to give a try. I couldn't stand it, so I popped in my old hard drive, deleted the old drivers (went from an ATI radeon to an NVIDIA GTX gpu), and everything seemed to be running perfectly.
Now comes the Windows Activation Technologies popup! YAY!
I 100% understand that my copy of Windows 7 was OEM and therefore 'locked-in' to the previous laptop's motherboard, and this current laptop's motherboard is too dissimilar to be passable for the WAT settings.
My question is not how to 'hack' or 'crack' my copy of Windows. My question is, without reformatting my computer and doing a re-install, is there any way to either contact Asus or Microsoft and ask for help in stopping this popup? Is this popup anything more than a warning? (I do have the watermark on my desktop saying it is no longer a Genuine copy). If I keep clicking 'cancel' when it asks me to solve the issue, will it eventually give me limited access to windows or some such thing (like the trials of Microsoft Office do after they expire?).
I've never had a 'fake' version of Windows or anything, so I'm a little on-edge about this whole situation. As far as I'm concerned, I'm running a 100% genuine copy of windows because I purchased it within a lemon computer, and the time that it took for them to get me a new one was too great, so the computer became out-of-date and I had to purchase a newer version.
Thanks~
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