Painterh52
New Member
Hi all. I recently did a repair install of windows 7 pro 64 bit on a ten year old homebuilt machine to clear up some corruption issues. Consequently, when I rebooted,
windows activation came up and I had saved my product key before to a notepad document. However when I tried to use the product key (to activate windows) I get a message which says I have tried to use a default product key and it wouldn't work for activation. I am a 66 year old retired man, and I have never pirated software, so it really bothers me to constantly see the message that windows is not genuine, aside from the fact that windows now works in reduced functionality mode. Does anyone have any ideas?
windows activation came up and I had saved my product key before to a notepad document. However when I tried to use the product key (to activate windows) I get a message which says I have tried to use a default product key and it wouldn't work for activation. I am a 66 year old retired man, and I have never pirated software, so it really bothers me to constantly see the message that windows is not genuine, aside from the fact that windows now works in reduced functionality mode. Does anyone have any ideas?