Hello,
I bought a laptop from someone who said it came with Windows 7. Started it up, everything looked good. Even did some updating with Windows Update. A day later, my background goes black and a message pops up saying my Windows & is not genuine. It is also permanently in the lower right corner of my screen. I tell the guy it is pirated and he sends me a link for a Windows_7_patch.rar file from RapidShare. I am pretty sure I know what the answer is, but this guy says that it is NOT pirated, but that he had that happen to him also. Other than him putting Windows 7 on several computers with the same license key, would I be safe to assume that this is pirated software? Thanks!
I bought a laptop from someone who said it came with Windows 7. Started it up, everything looked good. Even did some updating with Windows Update. A day later, my background goes black and a message pops up saying my Windows & is not genuine. It is also permanently in the lower right corner of my screen. I tell the guy it is pirated and he sends me a link for a Windows_7_patch.rar file from RapidShare. I am pretty sure I know what the answer is, but this guy says that it is NOT pirated, but that he had that happen to him also. Other than him putting Windows 7 on several computers with the same license key, would I be safe to assume that this is pirated software? Thanks!