A neighbor brought over their HP G7 Series Laptop. They admitted they aren't computer people. He warned me that the version of windows he had, he didn't think it was legit. I wondered how that could be with having a windows 7 Home Premium Key on the bottom of the laptop.
Booted it up to find Windows 7 Ultimate installed. In the bottom right corner it would says Windows 7 Build 7600 this copy of Windows is not Genuine.
I only remember seeing that when I used the beta of Windows 7... so thats what I thought it was. But they did have a product #.
with Windows update turned on and downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials I cleaned up a lot of Malware and junk.
I saw the Recovery Partition that HP has on their Laptops. Learned that to use it I need to push F11 from a boot menu. when I do this it would just boot into windows. Even though I know when I was running Security Essentials it scanned the Recovery Drive and I could see the files there.
Here is the strange part that I can't figure out. If I boot into Windows normally (not F11) I get the Windows Ultimate Not a Valid copy (I even open up the Activate windows little program and it says I need to put in a valid key).
BUT if I do the Boot and Push F11 windows comes up, but it has the Valid Key already entered. (No Windows 7 Build 7600 in the corner). I open up the activate windows and it is already activated and says its valid. Everything else on the computer is the exact same.
I tested this by just putting a file on the desktop. It is there no matter which one I boot into.
I can't figure out how or why using the Recovery option would boot using the valid windows key?
Also what is weird... is I boot into the bad windows. I then boot into the good windows and while its booting up I get a box saying I need to activate windows. if i hit cancel I can see the windows is valid. (it seems to set that flag when I reboot from the bad windows).
I can't figure out how this happens??
Booted it up to find Windows 7 Ultimate installed. In the bottom right corner it would says Windows 7 Build 7600 this copy of Windows is not Genuine.
I only remember seeing that when I used the beta of Windows 7... so thats what I thought it was. But they did have a product #.
with Windows update turned on and downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials I cleaned up a lot of Malware and junk.
I saw the Recovery Partition that HP has on their Laptops. Learned that to use it I need to push F11 from a boot menu. when I do this it would just boot into windows. Even though I know when I was running Security Essentials it scanned the Recovery Drive and I could see the files there.
Here is the strange part that I can't figure out. If I boot into Windows normally (not F11) I get the Windows Ultimate Not a Valid copy (I even open up the Activate windows little program and it says I need to put in a valid key).
BUT if I do the Boot and Push F11 windows comes up, but it has the Valid Key already entered. (No Windows 7 Build 7600 in the corner). I open up the activate windows and it is already activated and says its valid. Everything else on the computer is the exact same.
I tested this by just putting a file on the desktop. It is there no matter which one I boot into.
I can't figure out how or why using the Recovery option would boot using the valid windows key?
Also what is weird... is I boot into the bad windows. I then boot into the good windows and while its booting up I get a box saying I need to activate windows. if i hit cancel I can see the windows is valid. (it seems to set that flag when I reboot from the bad windows).
I can't figure out how this happens??
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