I would advise you lock this topic in a hurry, before someone gets the wrong idea.
Not really. There are cases where there are false-positives due to mishaps in the Windows Activation Tool.
Is this your own copy of Windows 7 that you installed yourself or did it come with the computer?
If you wholeheartedly believe your copy is genuine, you can contact Microsoft about it and if you purchased the copy genuinely or it came with the computer, just explain the situation calmly and they'll help you resolve it. You may need to find the CD-key on the computer or on the leaflets that came with it, or with the copy of Windows that you bought.
However, if your copy is NOT genuine and you believe you were a victim of counterfeiting, there's not much you can do other than buy a legitimate activation code from Microsoft.
If you intentionally circumvented authentication, it's going to likely lock up the system until you activate it with a valid key.
That's all it's doing?
stuff, when I got the "Windows not Genuine" bullstuff on my old computer it just locked up the whole thing to where I couldn't do anything with it but use it as a paperweight.
There's a time limit for activation these days. If you do not activate it within a timeframe, it will lock itself up.
this laptop is new and it came with windows 7 pre-installed.
Okay, contact the manufacturers of the laptop then. Or look on the bottom of the laptop, the code is usually always on the bottom on a special anti-fraud sticker, and enter it in.
