Vista with ungenuine Win 7 install: No Internet

[mjcaputo_09]

Hello,
My daughter won't listen to me. Her laptop came with Vista, she downloaded an unregistered version of Win 7 Ultimate. She can connect to Wi-Fi Linksys router, but cannot access Internet. Tried all kinds of things (adapter, Belkin external adapter, winsock, dnsflush, etc, etc.) Can this be fixed so she can access Inet?

 

[vrumor]

You wont get any help troubleshooting illegal copies of Windows. Period.

 

[mcnumpty23]

pirating isnt allowed here

so sorry but we wont help with an illegal copy

 

[willard]

Can you get to the router's administration page? Address is 192.168.0.1 for Linksys routers, I think.

If she can, try "ping google.com" from the command prompt, minus the quotes.

Also, has the computer hit the end of the 30 day activation timer? When that happens, it locks you out of many features, including the internet.

 

[mjcaputo_09]

You wont get any help troubleshooting illegal copies of Windows. Period.

I agree. My daughter won't listen to me. She dissed me and said things I don't want to say here. Thanks.

 

[daship]

Piracy is not allowed here.

Reinstall the Vista you legally have, or go out and buy Windows 7.

 

[shanky887614]

if she really needs internet


download and boot off a linux live cd


and its against forum rules to talk about piracy.


if she is a student you can get a discounted version of win7

 

[13thmonkey]

Hello,
My daughter won't listen to me. Her laptop came with Vista, she downloaded an unregistered version of Win 7 Ultimate. She can connect to Wi-Fi Linksys router, but cannot access Internet. Tried all kinds of things (adapter, Belkin external adapter, winsock, dnsflush, etc, etc.) Can this be fixed so she can access Inet?

Feel for you, but it looks like its locked itself down, also the pirated version may have all sorts of other easter eggs buried inside it, so getting rid is best choice.

 

[danny2000]

Student Upgrade to Windows 7 Pro for only $64.95 through Microsoft:
The website will give you options to have your school and you verified as a student:

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/pd/productID.216644200?Icid=Student_HUB_4up_Windows

 

[mjcaputo_09]

pirating isnt allowed here

so sorry but we wont help with an illegal copy

I agree. She's 18 and knows everything. I told her to go back to Vista. She dissed me. Oh... being a parent these days... almost as bad as being a teenager!!!

 

[mjcaputo_09]

Piracy is not allowed here.

Reinstall the Vista you legally have, or go out and buy Windows 7.

That's exactly what I told her, but she's 18 and knows better than 58 yr. old dad!!!!!

 

[mjcaputo_09]

if she really needs internet


download and boot off a linux live cd


and its against forum rules to talk about piracy.


if she is a student you can get a discounted version of win7

My bad. I'm in IT, so I told her what she had to do. Will she listen??? She's 18, and hurts her parents alot, but that's another story...... Thanks

 

[mjcaputo_09]

Thanks everyone who responded. As an IT tech, I told my daughter to revert back to Vista, or we need to purchase Win 7 Student edition. She kicked me out of her room... Said I broke her Laptop! God help us all!
Mark

 

[13thmonkey]

let her sit there with a broken laptop, she's 18, she can get a job and buy another one, or she can get educated and figure out how to fix it.

 

[Pyree]

When she loose all of her paper work, or bank account hacked into, or even worse, web cam accessible over the internet by some sick pervert, she will learn. Actually, the web cam accessible via internet, tell her that or show her what I wrote!

 

[13thmonkey]

+1 but she'll still blame parents, not mature enough to accept personal responsibilty by the sounds of it, seems normal for 18.

 

[willard]

Sounds like the opposite of how things were when I was 18. I was the only person in the family who had any degree of computer literacy, and I was constantly fixing things after my mother broke them.

She installed Comet Cursor THREE TIMES.

 

[danny2000]

Sounds like the opposite of how things were when I was 18. I was the only person in the family who had any degree of computer literacy, and I was constantly fixing things after my mother broke them.

She installed Comet Cursor THREE TIMES.

lol, I have not thought about Comet Cursor in years!!!