I bought two Windows 7 upgrade discs from Newegg that were offered pre-release and delivered in October. When I installed over my legal copy of XP everything activated ok and I got the genuine seal on the system page. I thought all was fine. Now this morning I suddenly have the watermark in the bottom right of my screen that says "Windows 7 Build 7600 This copy of Windows in not genuine". It's been about a month that I've been running this Windows 7 and now the message appears. Any tricks to get this back to genuine or do you guys think I have to call Microsoft and deal with them? I am totally 100% legal on this machine.
Edit: I rebooted again, and this time it came up as genuine in the system info and the watermark is gone. I guess Microsoft is just messing with me.
How often does it need to check? My computer is powered up 16 hours a day with cable connection always on. I wonder if it suddenly decided to re-check in the middle of the night while I was shut down? I'd think that once your windows 7 is validated as genuine it wouldn't need to keep verifying.
captainlynne said: How often does it need to check? My computer is powered up 16 hours a day with cable connection always on. I wonder if it suddenly decided to re-check in the middle of the night while I was shut down? I'd think that once your windows 7 is validated as genuine it wouldn't need to keep verifying.XP and Vista checked validation during Windows Updates. I imagine 7 does the same. So, it probably was doing an update during the night and couldn't get through to the validation servers which caused this.
--edit - they check more than just once because they black list codes and figure out how to find/stop cracking programs on an ongoing basis.
Thanks for the replies! Since the validation symbol is back and the watermark message gone I won't worry about it for now. I must have had a momentary inability to connect to the internet at some point during the day when I wasn't working on the machine. If the problem comes back I'll post here again and call microsoft to see what they say.
riznick said: Seems to me that will just cause legitamate customers to get upset at microsoft.They've been doing this since the release of XP. And yes, sometimes people get annoyed at them. They haven't stopped.
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