A few weeks back you may recall I had issues when I exchanged hard disks
between two pretty well identical legally licenced Win7 machines as a
diagnostic aid. (Compaq / HP SFF DC7600's) They then reported illegal
operating systems. That was sorted by reverting them to whence they came.
However I have a third Win 7 machine that recently flashed up a message that
the copy of Win7 wasn't legal and to follow a link. That took me to a
Microsoft page that emblazoned across the top told me that as my software
WAS legitimate, I was entitled to buy certain upgrades !!!!!!!

Now all these three machines are running Win7 loaded from the same disk and
having the same licence number that has been verified by Microsoft as being
legal. With Win7 professional you can use it on three machines.

I can sort of understand that if my licence number had been thought odd when
I swapped the hdds in the first two, then just maybe the third machine
flagged up as it had the same number. But the cynic in my says that actually
this is just crude advertising to sell more product. Anyone else had this?
All three machines are now running fine and do regular 'update' checks.

Andrew

"Andrew Mawson" wrote in message ...

A few weeks back you may recall I had issues when I exchanged hard disks
between two pretty well identical legally licenced Win7 machines as a
diagnostic aid. (Compaq / HP SFF DC7600's) They then reported illegal
operating systems. That was sorted by reverting them to whence they came.
However I have a third Win 7 machine that recently flashed up a message that
the copy of Win7 wasn't legal and to follow a link. That took me to a
Microsoft page that emblazoned across the top told me that as my software
WAS legitimate, I was entitled to buy certain upgrades !!!!!!!

Now all these three machines are running Win7 loaded from the same disk and
having the same licence number that has been verified by Microsoft as being
legal. With Win7 professional you can use it on three machines.

I can sort of understand that if my licence number had been thought odd when
I swapped the hdds in the first two, then just maybe the third machine
flagged up as it had the same number. But the cynic in my says that actually
this is just crude advertising to sell more product. Anyone else had this?
All three machines are now running fine and do regular 'update' checks.





Differences in hardware configuration and identifications causing check-sum
differences invalidating the licence

Andrew Mawson wrote:

I have a third Win 7 machine that recently flashed up a message that
the copy of Win7 wasn't legal

One of the recent updates caused grief with certificates, and in turn
with the activation checks, they hurriedly sent out another update to
kill the dodgy update, but not before it had affected some machines ...

If you have KBKB3024777 installed you should be OK, and the cause is
something else, if not, you may need to remove KB3004394.

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Andrew Mawson wrote:

I have a third Win 7 machine that recently flashed up a message that
the copy of Win7 wasn't legal

One of the recent updates caused grief with certificates, and in turn with
the activation checks, they hurriedly sent out another update to kill the
dodgy update, but not before it had affected some machines ...

If you have KBKB3024777 installed you should be OK, and the cause is
something else, if not, you may need to remove KB3004394.

KB3024777 was installed on 13th December, before the issue. There is no
issue now, it was just I thought linking to a page flogging updates was
blatant advertising

Andrew

"Nthkentman" wrote in message
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"Andrew Mawson" wrote in message ...

A few weeks back you may recall I had issues when I exchanged hard disks
between two pretty well identical legally licenced Win7 machines as a
diagnostic aid. (Compaq / HP SFF DC7600's) They then reported illegal
operating systems. That was sorted by reverting them to whence they came.
However I have a third Win 7 machine that recently flashed up a message
that
the copy of Win7 wasn't legal and to follow a link. That took me to a
Microsoft page that emblazoned across the top told me that as my software
WAS legitimate, I was entitled to buy certain upgrades !!!!!!!

Now all these three machines are running Win7 loaded from the same disk and
having the same licence number that has been verified by Microsoft as being
legal. With Win7 professional you can use it on three machines.

I can sort of understand that if my licence number had been thought odd
when
I swapped the hdds in the first two, then just maybe the third machine
flagged up as it had the same number. But the cynic in my says that
actually
this is just crude advertising to sell more product. Anyone else had this?
All three machines are now running fine and do regular 'update' checks.





Differences in hardware configuration and identifications causing check-sum
differences invalidating the licence


Nthkentman, you've not read the full post have you !

Andrew

You are of course right. I have a win 7 home premium machine and when I go
onto the site manually with it it tries the hard sell for windows 8.1 and
Office 365 at discount rates. OK so the rates are good, but I don't want to
change what works do I? I mean, why would anyone just change for the sake of
it?
Brian

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A few weeks back you may recall I had issues when I exchanged hard disks
between two pretty well identical legally licenced Win7 machines as a
diagnostic aid. (Compaq / HP SFF DC7600's) They then reported illegal
operating systems. That was sorted by reverting them to whence they came.
However I have a third Win 7 machine that recently flashed up a message
that the copy of Win7 wasn't legal and to follow a link. That took me to a
Microsoft page that emblazoned across the top told me that as my software
WAS legitimate, I was entitled to buy certain upgrades !!!!!!!

Now all these three machines are running Win7 loaded from the same disk
and having the same licence number that has been verified by Microsoft as
being legal. With Win7 professional you can use it on three machines.

I can sort of understand that if my licence number had been thought odd
when I swapped the hdds in the first two, then just maybe the third
machine flagged up as it had the same number. But the cynic in my says
that actually this is just crude advertising to sell more product. Anyone
else had this? All three machines are now running fine and do regular
'update' checks.

Andrew

On 20/12/2014 19:57, Andrew Mawson wrote:
A few weeks back you may recall I had issues when I exchanged hard disks
between two pretty well identical legally licenced Win7 machines as a
diagnostic aid. (Compaq / HP SFF DC7600's) They then reported illegal
operating systems. That was sorted by reverting them to whence they
came. However I have a third Win 7 machine that recently flashed up a
message that the copy of Win7 wasn't legal and to follow a link. That
took me to a Microsoft page that emblazoned across the top told me that
as my software WAS legitimate, I was entitled to buy certain upgrades
!!!!!!!

Now all these three machines are running Win7 loaded from the same disk
and having the same licence number that has been verified by Microsoft
as being legal. With Win7 professional you can use it on three machines.

I can sort of understand that if my licence number had been thought odd
when I swapped the hdds in the first two, then just maybe the third
machine flagged up as it had the same number. But the cynic in my says
that actually this is just crude advertising to sell more product.
Anyone else had this? All three machines are now running fine and do
regular 'update' checks.

Andrew


Yes I had a fleeting glimpse of "this license is not legitimate" (or
similar) in the last month or so on a known good Win7 machine. Only saw
it once and didn't follow any links - not seen it since - just assumed
it was either fishing or Windows having a bad day.