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I suffered this with a 2nd hand Windows 7 computer my mother was using that kept complaining about being counterfeit. Windows is only £80 or so and there was a
by christoph 11y ago
I suffered this with a 2nd hand Windows 7 computer my mother was using that kept complaining about being counterfeit.
Windows is only £80 or so and there was a big button on the nag screens that took me to the Windows site to buy a licence. Great - credit card in hand I clicked on through and was instantly greeted with buy Windows 8.1 screens.
The problem is, I absolutely did not want under any circumstances to install 8.1. I just wanted a legit licence to the already installed 7, which the computer was quite happily running and required no learning/explaining of metro to my mother.
For nearly 1 hour I tried to find a way to buy that Windows 7 licence key and found absolutely no way to do it.
- nadams 11y ago> I suffered this with a 2nd hand Windows 7 computer my mother was using that kept complaining about being counterfeit. That has been known to happen [1] (it's never happened to me personally). I suspect it has something to do with buggy AV or anti-malware software. > For nearly 1 hour I tried to find a way to buy that Windows 7 licence key and found absolutely no way to do it. You don't have a Best Buy type store near you? [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2859267/operating-systems/windows-7-hit-by-rash-of-bogus-not-genuine-reports-validation-code-0x8004fe21.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/2859267/operating-systems/w...