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Not genuine windows message
Littlefrog:
Hi Shane. Your previous help with my weird permissions problem worked and appears to be still working but I have a new problem.
Roughly since November I have been getting a "This is Not Genuine Windows" notice very often during all sessions in all applications. The link in that message to an online fix does not work. I suspect that it brings up slui.exe with parameters 3 or 4 from the CMD system. I've run both of those directly and each time the system says my Win 7 is activated and Microsoft pure once again. The not genuine message comes back right away.
As far as I can tell from the web this is a bad download issue but I cannot find the specific download talked about and a restore to before the date of the suspected bad software had no effect on the problem.
Talking to Microsoft about this was beyond frustrating and useless. The crew that built my computer went all out to help but they could not deal with it either.
I have the disk to reinstall Windows but that means redoing a lot of work and it is a last resort as far as I am concerned. I also don't really know if it will work.
Any ideas about this one? I saw the posts about switching DNS connections but I don't know if that is what is wrong.
Many thanks.
Shane:
What you could do is a repair install instead of a fresh install. That way all your programs and file stay :-)
First you need to have a normal install disk that has SP 1 already on it. Just in case you can grab the iso from here
https://sites.google.com/site/linuxlablibrary/windows-iso
Then just follow this guide on the Repair install :wink:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
Shane
Boggin:
There's a couple of things you can try for that.
These commands you may have already run, but if not.....
Recreate the Licensing Store
Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories
Right-Click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator - accept the UAC prompt
Run the following commands in the Command Prompt window, using the Enter key at the end of each
net stop sppsvc
(wait until the service has stopped before entering the following lines)
CD %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform
REN tokens.dat tokens.bar
net start sppsvc
slui.exe
After a couple of seconds the Windows Activation dialog will appear.
You may be asked to re-activate and/or re-enter your product key, or Activation may occur automatically.
If you are asked for your Key, use the one on the COA sticker on the machine's case
Reboot.
Or this MS Fixit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2230957
Or these commands run from an elevated command prompt - you can copy and paste these ones and they will auto run but if any appear to be sticking, just press enter.
net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptSvc
net stop bits
net stop msiserver
ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 catroot2.old
net start wuauserv
net start cryptSvc
net start bits
net start msiserver
Hope some of this will be of help in negating the reinstall.
Boggin:
--- Quote from: Shane on February 19, 2015, 01:16:53 pm ---What you could do is a repair install instead of a fresh install. That way all your programs and file stay :-)
First you need to have a normal install disk that has SP 1 already on it. Just in case you can grab the iso from here
https://sites.google.com/site/linuxlablibrary/windows-iso
Then just follow this guide on the Repair install :wink:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
Shane
--- End quote ---
Shane, which one of those would you use for a standard Win 7 x64 Home Premiun download and do they require your product key to authorise the download ?
Rick:
--- Quote from: Boggin on February 19, 2015, 03:23:21 pm ---There's a couple of things you can try for that.
These commands you may have already run, but if not.....
Recreate the Licensing Store
Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories
Right-Click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator - accept the UAC prompt
Run the following commands in the Command Prompt window, using the Enter key at the end of each
net stop sppsvc
(wait until the service has stopped before entering the following lines)
CD %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform
REN tokens.dat tokens.bar
net start sppsvc
slui.exe
After a couple of seconds the Windows Activation dialog will appear.
You may be asked to re-activate and/or re-enter your product key, or Activation may occur automatically.
If you are asked for your Key, use the one on the COA sticker on the machine's case
Reboot.
Or this MS Fixit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2230957
Or these commands run from an elevated command prompt - you can copy and paste these ones and they will auto run but if any appear to be sticking, just press enter.
net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptSvc
net stop bits
net stop msiserver
ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 catroot2.old
net start wuauserv
net start cryptSvc
net start bits
net start msiserver
Hope some of this will be of help in negating the reinstall.
--- End quote ---
B, we need keep people honest and ask them to re-install in this case... Asking them to re-build with this method is probably more harmful than good as some people might simply try it to see if it even works... thereby causing more problems.
To people with this error; having to re-install is the only solution suitable to offer in this case.
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